The importance of writing style is to help your readers to follow and understand the meanings and concepts embedded in your writing. In his book, Johnson-Sheehan (2002) pointed out that writing styles are effective on the sentence level, on the paragraph level and at the document level. On the sentence level, writers should pick the… Continue reading Writing Style: Plain writing and persuasive writing
Author: Amos Yung
Cross-cultural awareness in international negotiations
In his book English for International Negotiations: a cross-cultural case study approach, Drew Rodgers states that “The art of negotiating involves finding a balance between achieving the best possible result, while at the same time establishing a mutually beneficial working relationship with your counterparts.” (Rodgers, 1998, p. 1) Several suggestions were given to establish an atmosphere… Continue reading Cross-cultural awareness in international negotiations
Using a professional corpus for conceptual framing in corporate governance
Corpus driven linguistic research extracts the meaning of a concept from a corpus. This article demonstrates how a professional corpus helps business executives to understand the meaning and concepts of technical words used in the industry. Different industries have their own technical words and phrases. For example, ‘Internal Audit’ is frequently used in finance and… Continue reading Using a professional corpus for conceptual framing in corporate governance
Using a professional communication corpus for business writing
Corpus is a collection of authentic texts compiled for the study of real-life language usage. Corpus is also compiled to build language models for machine learning or to compile dictionaries. A compiled corpus is useful for language users to find real-life language examples to enhance their communication proficiency. The two well-known corpora available online is… Continue reading Using a professional communication corpus for business writing