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Topic 1: The Language of Ideas
Table of Contents
The Language of Ideas: Introduction
The Language of Ideas
What you will learn in this Topic
About Styles of language
Task 1: Styles of language
Where you are now
Log Entry 2
Academic language
Kinds of abstract words: Qualities
Kinds of abstract words: conditions
Kinds of abstract words: processes
Institutions and Systems of Belief
Exam Questions
Initial Problem Revisited
Journal Entry: Application Task
Task 1: Styles of language
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a)
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DETECTIVE STORY
PERSONAL LETTER
ACADEMIC ESSAY
b)
What are the five basic steps in the strategic management process? Identify and briefly describe each.
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DETECTIVE STORY
PERSONAL LETTER
ACADEMIC ESSAY
c)
..... the curtains were billowing in the wind. Jake closed the window and, as he did so, he felt something sticky on the handle. It was .........
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DETECTIVE STORY
PERSONAL LETTER
ACADEMIC ESSAY
d)
...... what I always said about Rafik. Well, I've been proved right! As always! Ellie told me that she saw him with Felix in the Bull Ring the other night and he was wearing ......
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DETECTIVE STORY
PERSONAL LETTER
ACADEMIC ESSAY
e)
Chomsky argued in 1964 that language was innate. Otherwise how could such a complex structure be learned by children who could barely walk? It was some years before this was generally accepted by the linguistic community, but it opened up research in language acquisition, the universality of linguistic structures and many other fields of inquiry.
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DETECTIVE STORY
PERSONAL LETTER
ACADEMIC ESSAY
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