Tài liệu Academic Writing A Handbook for International Students part 2 docx

... 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...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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... 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,...

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... (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...

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... 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...

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