ABSTRACT
International students of Business may be understandably concerned by the quantity and complexity of the vocabulary required for reading academic texts. Management buy-outs is a term specific to Business, while effectiveness and controversy are general academic vocabulary that all students need to understand. But developing vocabulary involves more than learning lists of words. Vocabulary for Writing, provides a variety of approaches to improving students understanding in this area. Certain common words cause confusion because they have similar but distinct spellings and meanings: The drought affected the wheat harvest in Australia. An immediate effect of the price rise was a fall in demand. Affect and effect are two different words. Affect is a verb, while effect is commonly used as a noun. When reading academic texts, one may meet words and phrases from other languages, usually Latin, German or French.
