9 Critical thinking
The responses to these questions will vary from student to student, which is the nature of the
critical approach.
10 Vocabulary revision
Stakeholders: All parties involved in a business
Productivity: A measure of a company’s output per worker
Patent: Method of protecting new inventions from copying
Debt: Money owed
Commodity prices: Cost of raw materials such as wheat or oil
Workforce: Employees of an organisation
Budgeting: Process of planning future spending priorities
Privatisation: Process of selling state-owned assets
Bias: Preference for one point of view
Diversification: Spreading business activities over several areas
1.3 Avoiding Plagiarism
2 Degrees of plagiarism
1 Yes
2 Yes
3 Yes
4 No
5 Yes
6 No
7 Yes
8 No
9 Yes/No
10 Yes
3 Avoiding plagiarism by summarising and paraphrasing
(a) Acceptable –a correctly referenced summary
(b) Plagiarised – original wording with minor changes to word order
(c) Acceptable – a correctly referenced quotation
(d) Technically plagiarism – mistake in date means the citation is incorrect
(e) Plagiarised – some original wording and no citation