CAES9920 Week 3.

1
Academic Communication for Business
and Economics
 Learning Outcomes
By the end of week 3, you will have:
•identified and better understood the linguistic features of academic
writing
•provided feedback and received feedback in relation to these
features
•provided and received feedback on your group CSR essays and an
exemplar CSR essay
•a better understanding of social media and the assessment 1 task
Activity 1:
Identifying academic linguistic features
1. Complex sentences
2. Complex noun phrases/nominalization
3. Hedging
4. Signposting devices Find examples of
5. Pronoun references these from the
6. Reporting devices exemplar essay!
7. Explanatory devices
 Activity 1:
Identifying academic linguistic features
1. Complex sentences
2. Complex noun phrases/nominalization
3. Hedging
4. Signposting devices
Find examples of
5. Pronoun references
these from your
6. Reporting devices
group CSR essay!
7. Explanatory devices

Have you...
• Used the above features appropriately?
• Missed out any of them? Where can you add them?
Activity 2:
Providing Feedback
CSR has many parts. The parts are social, economical, and
cultural. Pat (2005) said there is definitely no relationship between
CSR and company performance. Wong (2007) also thinks this.
Other research has also been done. For example, Johnson (2008)
collected data and analyzed it using the micro-macro correlation
social model. The financial doom and gloom of 2008 was a result
of a lack of CSR.

Academic linguistic
features?
Procedural step
1) clarifying the writer’s
intention
2) identifying the problem
3) explaining the nature of the
problem
4) making specific suggestions
Adapted from Min, H. T. (2005). Training students to become successful peer reviewers. System, 33(2), 293-308.
Definition Example comment
Reviewers try to
get further explanation of what Do you really mean they
writers have written or what is “DON’T CARE”?
not clear to them in the essay
Reviewers announce the problem
”DON’T CARE” seems very
by specifically pointing to it
emotional
Reviewers explain why This phrase shouldn’t be used in
something is unclear or the essay b/c it’s too emotional
problematic, which should or and you don’t have source
should not be used in the essay support for such a strong
statement.
Reviewers suggest ways to
How about this instead: “do not
change the words, content, and
prioritize” and might need a
organization of essays
citation
Activity 2:
Providing Feedback
CSR has many parts. The parts are social, economical, and
cultural. Pat (2005) said there is definitely no relationship between
CSR and company performance. Wong (2007) also thinks this.
Other research has also been done. For example, Johnson (2008)
collected data and analyzed it using the micro-macro correlation
social model. The financial doom and gloom of 2008 was a result
of a lack of CSR.

1. Clarifying the writer’s intention

2. Identifying the problem Academic
3. Explaining the nature of the problem
4. Making specific suggestions linguistic
features?
Before you go...
Out-of-class Assignments
1.

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3:24

2. Preparing for Assessment 1 –

Read sources and take notes
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