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academic writer: paragraphs: creating continuity by modified repetition 2
Creating continuity by modified repetition
EXAMPLE 2
Notice that the way that enterprises are referred to in no less than four different ways in these three paragraphs. The key point is that the continuity is maintained but the writer avoids the dulling effect of repeating the same lexical item.
| The first thing we notice is the small scale of enterprise.
In the west, Japan and Korea, economic development has been achieved by rapid increases in
the scale of economic enterprises. The opposite is true in Chinese cultures. In Taiwan for
example, the number of small companies increased by 150%
between 1966 and 1972. Small firm size is if anything even more the rule in Hong Kong. Indeed the average size of firms has actually declined. In 1947 there were 961 firms in Hong Kong employing 47,356 people, for a mean of 49.3 people per firm.. By 1984 the mean was just 18.4 employees per firm. The small scale of Chinese industry is associated with another unique feature of Taiwanese development... |
Adapted from 'Trust' by Francis Fukuyama (p.69 ff)
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