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Chapter one Stylistic Features of academic writing Example 1 Example 2 Capital is a complex notion. There are many definitions of the word itself, and capital as applied in accounting can be viewed conceptually from a number of standpoints; that is, there is legal capital, financial capital and physical capital. The application of financial and physical concepts of capital is not straightforward as there are various permutations of these concepts applied in the business environment... Capital is a difficult thing to understand. We can explain it in different ways, and in accounting we can look at it from different angles. Accountants talk about legal capital, financial capital and physical capital. How we apply financial and physical concepts of capital isnt easy because people in business use it differently... six main features of academic writing : complexity, formality, objectivity, explicitness, hedging, and responsibility. 1. Complexity 1.1 Lexical complexity 1.1.1 Complex Formation of Words e.g. verbs + prefix verb Prefix Meaning Example re- again or back restructure, revisit, reappear, rebuild, refinance dis- reverses the meaning of the verb disappear, disallow, disarm, disconnect, discontinue over- too much overbook, oversleep, overwork un- reverses the meaning of the verb unbend, uncouple, unfasten mis- badly or wrongly mislead, misinform, misidentify out- more or better than others outperform, outbid be- make or cause befriend, belittle co- together co-exist, co-operate, co-own de- do the opposite of devalue, deselect fore- earlier, before foreclose, foresee inter- between interact, intermix, interface pre- before pre-expose, prejudge, pretest sub- under/below subcontract, subdivide trans- across, over transform, transcribe, transplant under- not enough underfund, undersell, undervalue, underdevelop e.g. Suffix used to form verbs with the meaning “cause to be”. Suffix Example -ise stabilise, characterise, symbolise, visualise, speci