Academic Writing

parties should benefit from the research.
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Practice C
(i)
Africa is not a country: such as Nigeria
(ii)
Innocence is a noun: Young and innocent
(iii) Question mark needed
(iv) Present perfect needed with ‘since’: Since 2005, there have been . . .
(v)
‘Successfulness’ is not a word: success
(vi) ‘pervious’ is incorrect: previous
(vii) ‘one of the . . .’ needs plural noun: one of the largest companies . . .
(viii) Repetition: the essay will conclude with an analysis of . . .
(ix) Time periods need definite article: the nineteenth century
(x)
when consumers go out shopping . . .
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Practice D
(i)
Style – use children
(ii)
Singular/plural – their lines
(iii) Vocabulary – torment is too strong, use inconvenience
(iv) Word ending – different effects
(v)
Factual – 1973
(vi) Word order – overcome
(vii) Punctuation – no comma needed
(viii) Spelling – Hungary
(ix) Missing word – the world
(x)
Tense – were
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Practice E
(Corrected version)
A bicycle is one of the most efficient machines ever designed. Cyclists can travel four times faster
than walkers, while using less energy to do so. Various people invented early versions of the bike,
but the first model with pedals that was successfully mass produced was made by a Frenchman,
Ernest Michaux, in 1861. Later additions included pneumatic tyres and gears. Today, hundreds of
millions of bicycles are in use all over the world.
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PART 2
2.1 Argument and Discussion
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