CAES9920 ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION FOR BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Assessment 3, part 2: Language learning reflection
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Task 1: Read the following 2 excerpts (A & B) and determine where each excerpt could have been
taken from. The choices are ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLE or WEBSITE BLOG. Afterwards, provide
at least one piece of linguistic evidence from each excerpt to support your answers.
a)
Maximum word count for this box: 100 words
Excerpt a) is taken from:
Academic journal article.
At least one piece of linguistic evidence:
Complex sentences.
“Virtual team management, which is …… to achieve organization goals.” is one of the complex
sentences in the above excerpt. It explains the meaning of VTM and how it helps corporations to
maximize organizational goals. This linguistic feature can help the writer to show and
sequentially order the relationships between his/her ideas in academic writing. For informal
writing, the sentences are less complex, which allows readers to read easier.
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b)
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Excerpt a) is taken from:
Website blog.
At least one piece of linguistic evidence:
Figurative language.
“Lose the race to the top” is a vivid metaphor. It is informal and suitable for writing a website
blog. For academic writing, which is formal, we use literal language instead of figurative
language to explain concepts.
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Task 2: Below is a body paragraph for an academic business audience on whether Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR) is beneficial for company performance. Provide one piece of feedback
on CONTENT and one piece of feedback on ORGANIZATION that would make the paragraph more
suitable for an academic business audience.
Maximum word count for this box: 200 words
Feedback on CONTENT:
“...social media is a problem.”
1. The writer is trying to explain that people may misuse social media, which causes problems.
2. The writer is fully committed to this argument and there is no room for further discussion.
3. Sources are needed to support the writer’s argument and show caution for the writer’s claim.
4. Hedging devices can be used. The writer can rewrite the sentence like “Social media may
bring problems to the company.” or find sources to support the idea that social media content
is harmful.
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Feedback on ORGANIZATION:
“ ...as a result of the small nature of its business…”
1. The writer is trying to explain that several features of small corporations, such as the small
scale of businesses may result in low motivation to practice CSR.
2. "As a result of the" seems not accurate to link the ideas.
3. "As a result of the" means that there is only one causation for the relationship of the former
and latter idea. However, low motivation is an argument but not a result.
4. The writer can rephrase the sentence like "As the nature of its business is small…",
strengthening the ideas' cohesions.
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Task 3: Write a brief action plan that demonstrates how the knowledge you have learned in this
course can be effectively used in your future writing task(s). You can use arrows or drawings to
represent aspects of your action plan.
Maximum word count for this box: 250 words
Firstly, I am equipped with the ability to use different languages to express business and
economics-related concepts appropriately. After completing various learning works in this class, I
learned to use suitable academic linguistic features by paying strong attention to the genre's
audience, purpose, and context.
Equipped with these writing capabilities, I will continue to evaluate and improve my writings by
such standards. For instance, if I am asked to write a business collaboration proposal, using more
boosters is critical to show that our company is confident with the provision of services and more
competitive. Using cohesion devices is also vital for our business partners to understand the
logical flow of our collaboration. At the same time, I will not neglect the importance of hedging to
withhold the company's full commitment to the partnership.
Moreover, for my future writing tasks, to ensure I understand what I am trying to accomplish in
the paper and the target audience, I will set self-directed guidelines after examining the grading
criteria or nature of the writing. Therefore, I will continue to apply the microanalysis of my papers
in the future.
Figure 1: The self-directed guidelines in my future writing
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