Academic Writing for International Students of Business

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(e) All advertising must respect cultural differences. (___)


(f) Some progress was made in the theoretical area. (___)


(g) A frequent complaint is that too much reading is expected. (___)


(h) We took a more critical approach to marketing theory. (___)


(i) The Department of Social Policy is offering three courses this year.
(___)


(j) Finally, the practical implications of my findings will be examined.
(___)


176 Part 3: Vocabulary for Writing


Students wishing to develop their academic vocabulary should study the Academic
Word List (AWL). This is a list of 570 items commonly found in academic texts
across various disciplines, created by Averil Coxhead.

See Sandra Haywood’s website for information about the AWL, with further
practice exercises: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/.
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