... leave the management of their portfolios to
professional fund managers.
1 .2 Avoiding Plagiarism
All students have to face the issue of plagiarism. Plagiarism means
taking information or ideas ... that less than 20 % of
their population could read or write. (Hobsbawm, 1994, p.
29 5)
Which of the following are plagiarised and which are
acceptable?
a) Almost as dramatic as the decline...
... which
lasts for half the academic year. Semester 1, for example,
starts in September and finishes in January. Previously
the academic year had been divided into three terms:
autumn, winter and ... labour market.
g) As student numbers rise, standards fall. Classrooms
become more crowded, and overworked teachers are
less able to give students personal attention.
1. 12 Organising...
... University of Derby for the past 10 years. Before that he taught
English to students in the Czech Republic, Spain, Japan and Malaysia.
Academic
Writing
A Handbook for International Students
Second ...
http://www.routledge.com/education.
Academic Writing
A Handbook for International Students
Second edition
Writing essays and dissertations can be a major c...
... measurement of happiness’ Applied
Econometrics 44 p.18
4.5 Comparison Essay
Read the essay carefully and find:
a) a definition
b) an example
c) a generalisation
d) a phrase expressing cause and ...
parallel growth in happiness. Surveys indicate that rich
people generally say they are happier than poor people,
but it appears that although individuals may become
happier society as a...
... the arguments in favour of privatisation and
evaluate its record in Britain.
A case study of electricity privatisation
An analysis of the international trends in
privatisation
A study of major ...
lively capital, with a population of two million, is the
perfect place to live and study. Cheap, comfortable
accommodation is always available, and transport
is provided by the clean a...
...
paraphrasing in note-making and summary writing. Effective
paraphrasing is vital in academic writing to avoid the risk of
plagiarism.
1. Although paraphrasing techniques are used in summary ... read your notes, clarity and
organisation are important to save time and errors at the writing
stage.
1. What are the main reasons for note-taking?
Add to the ideas below.
a) to avoid p...
... than originally planned. Australia, for
example, took over 70 years to finish building Canberra,
while Nigeria has never completed its planned new
capital, Abuja. Both Brazil and Malaysia have ... States have
recently reported that baboons are able to think
abstractly. It has been known for some time that
chimpanzees are capable of abstract thought, but
baboons are a more distant...
... 50
The Writing Process: Writing Stages
a) Comparisons of the advantages and disadvantages
that students mentioned about study abroad and an
attempt to decide if most students benefited ...
means that a variety of weather types can dominate the
country. the
Atlantic Ocean can produce warm wet winds, especially in
winter. the land mass
of Europe can create anticyclonic weather,...
... (unit 2. 13 Style). Many academic subjects also require
discussion of statistics (unit 2. 9 Numbers), and graphs and
charts (unit 2. 16 Visual Information).
In the case of unit 2. 4 Comparison and ... Elements of Writing are the various skills that are
needed for most types of academic writing, whether it is
a short report, a long essay or a dissertation. Many essays,
f...
... found that they have an average life of
only 4.7 years. This is due to two main reasons; one
economic and one social. The former appears to be a lack
of capital, the latter a failure to carry ... expensive as Japanese letters.
It can also be used for quantitative comparison:
German letters are twice as expensive as American letters.
(Also: half as/three times as/etc.)
cross-reference...