Academic Writing for International Students of Business

The paragraph could be rewritten in a more suitable style: 142 Part 2: Elements of Writing Poor style Reason How to make people ...

(c) Be as precise as possible when dealing with facts or figures. Avoid phrases such as about a hundredor hundreds of years ago. ...

3 Practice A  In the following sentences, underline examples of bad style and rewrite them in a more suitable way. (a) What was ...

 In the following text, remove all repetition and redundancy, rewriting where necessary. 2.13:Style 145 FAST FOOD Currently the ...

 Rewrite the following paragraph so that instead of six short sentences, there are two long and two short sentences. 146 Part 2 ...

(d) Making predictions (normally with mayor might). Caution is also needed to avoid making statements that are too simplistic: W ...

(c) His second book had a hostile reception. (d) The first year students were fascinated by her lectures. (e) The latest type of ...

Types of conjunctions On pp. 150–151 are examples of some of the main types of visuals used in academic texts.  Complete the ta ...

(A) Cinema ticket sales 150 Part 2: Elements of Writing Sweden 3.6 Finland 3.4 Iceland 3.1 Japan 3.0 South Korea 2.9 United Stat ...

2.14:Visual Information 151 (D) Origins of international students Far East N.America Europe Other Africa (E) Structure of the re ...

The language of numbers (Past tenses in brackets) 152 Part 2: Elements of Writing Verb Adverb Verb Adjective + noun grow (grew) ...

3 Describing visuals Although visuals do largely speak for themselves, it is common to help the reader interpret them by briefly ...

 (b) Complete the description of the chart below. 154 Part 2: Elements of Writing 0 100 200 300 400 500 Figure 3 Population den ...

5 Practice A  Complete the following description of the table below (one word per gap). 2.14:Visual Information 155 Table 1 (a) ...

Revision Exercise Elements of Writing  Answer the following questions, which revise some of the material in Part 2. 1 Give thre ...

9 Rewrite the following with suitable phrases to introduce the examples in brackets. (a) A few districts are famous for technolo ...

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PART 3 Vocabulary for Writing ...

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1 Introduction International students of Business may be understandably concerned by the quantity and complexity of the vocabula ...