ABSTRACT
Examples are used in academic writing for support and illustration. Suitable examples can strengthen the argument, but they can also help the reader to understand a point. This unit demonstrates the different ways in which examples can be introduced, and practises their use. Without examples, an argument may seem too theoretical: E-commerce businesses are particularly vulnerable to security breaches. An example makes the idea easier to understand: E-commerce businesses are particularly vulnerable to security breaches. When eBay was hacked into in 2014, for instance, 128 million members had to change their passwords. The example may also support the point the writer is making: in recent years researchers have begun looking into corporate governance in transition economies For example, Djankov and Murrell document that more than 150,000 large SOEs in transition economies have undergone enterprise restructuring.
