Academic Writing for International Students of Business

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category Her work established two categories of corporate governance.


claim Their claimthat the company was founded in the 1700s is false.


controversy Climate change is an issue that has caused much controversy.


correlation They found a correlationbetween height and wealth.


deterrent Weak consumer demand acted as a deterrentto expansion.


emphasis Their teacher put the emphasison practical research.


evidence The fall in profits provided evidenceof his poor management.


exception The Tesla is an exceptionto the idea of slow, small electric cars.


extract He read a short extractfrom his paper on Friedman to the class.


ideology Military power was at the heart of Roman ideology.


implication The implicationof the report is that we need to do more research.


innovation Steam power was a significant innovationin the eighteenth century.


intuition Intuition has been described as ‘a gut feeling’.


motivation Money is often claimed to be the motivation for most workers.


perspective Sigmund Freud’s work opened a new behaviour. perspectiveon human


phenomenon Earthquakes are an unusual phenomenonin Britain.


policy The university has a zero-tolerance policyon plagiarism.


preference Her profitable.preferencewas criminal law, but other fields were more


process The product evaluation processtook two years.


proposal The professor’s proposalfor more seminars was rejected.


provision The library has increased its 100%. provisionof computer terminals by


sequence Writing is a sequence of reading, note-taking, planning and drafting.


strategy Swimming every day was part of his strategy for getting fit.


substitute To what extent can natural gas be a substitutefor oil?


technique She developed a newtechniquefor measuring innovation.


validity Events confirmed the validityof his prediction.

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