English for academic purposes answers to exercises – Features of academic writing

Exercise 1 
a)
 
Christensen, C.M. (2003) 
The innovator’s dilemma. 
New York: Harper Collins. 
b)
 
Cox, C.K. (1993) ‘Tertiary level writing’, 
EA Journal,
12(1), pp. 52-60. 
c)
 
Perry, D. (2006) 
Are games better than life?
Available at: 
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_perry_on_videogames
 (Accessed: 25 March 2010). 
d)
 
Morgan, C. (2017) 
Sustainable practice 
[PowerPoint presentation]. 
SSP7057: Sustainable Tourism.
Available at: 
http://www.ucm.ac.uk/resources/2017-11-09/sustainable-practice-ppt
 (Accessed: 11 
November 2017). 
▪
The above rule only applies for end of text citations. The equivalent in-text citation would 
appear as follows: 
Ryan (2017) and Osmond (2018)
 
suggested that… 

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Exercise 2 
Below is the correct format for all six sources, provided in the correct (alphabetical) order. 
NOTE
: the accessed 
date will vary depending on when you completed the exercise. 
Borodisky, L. (2017) 
How language shapes the way we think.
Available at: 
https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think
 
(Accessed: 1 July 2018). 
Cottrell, S. (2013) 
The study skills handbook.
4
th
edn. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave 
Macmillan. 
Office for National Statistics (2018) 
Who does the UK trade with?
Available at: 
https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internationaltrade/articles/whodoesth
euktradewith/2017-02-21
 (Accessed: 1 July 2018). 
Steers, R.M., Nardon, L. and Sanchez-Runde, C.J. (2016) 
Management across cultures: 
developing global competencies.
3
rd
edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
Wessel, M., Thies, F. and Benlian, A. (2017) ‘Open the floodgates: the implications of 
incr
easing platform openness in crowdfunding’, 
Journal of Information Technology
, 
32(4), pp. 344-360. doi: 10.1057/s41265-017-0040-z. 
Zhang, J.H. (2018) ‘Accounting comparability, audit effort, and audit outcomes’, 
Contemporary 
Accounting Research
, 35(1), pp. 245-276. doi: 10.1111/1911-3846.12381. 

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