10 MANAGING PEOPLE AND MONEY


Skills bank Identifying the parts of a long sentence


Long sentences contain many separate parts. You must be able to recognize these parts to understand the sentence as a whole. Mark up a long sentence as follows: 


Locate the subjects, verbs and objects/complements and underline the relevant words. 


Put a dividing line: 


at the end of a phrase which begins a sentence  before a phrase at the end of the sentence  between clauses


 Put brackets round extra pieces of information. Example:


In recent years many writers have claimed that decentralizing management has a very positive effect on the success of a business, but some evidence does not support that belief.


In recent years | many writers have claimed | that decentralizing management has a very positive effect (on the success of a business,) | but some evidence does not support that belief.


Constructing a long sentence


Begin with a very simple SV(O)(C)(A) sentence and then add extra information. Example:


Small companies As many


recent studies have shown,


need help.


small companies in every need help of many including kind of industry


kinds, money and advice. Writing a bibliography/reference list


The APA (American Psychological Association) system is probably the most common in the social sciences. Information should be given as shown in the following source references for a book, an Internet article and a journal article. The final list should be in alphabetical order according to the family name of the writer. See the reference list on page 83 for a model.


Author Date Title of book


Leiper, N. (1995). Tourism management. Writer or


Date (2007).


organization (or ‘n.d.’) article Google.


Author Hilton hotels. Date Title of article


Northcote, J., (2006). Conceptualizing & Macbeth, J.


yield: Sustainable


Place of publication Publisher Melbourne:


Title of Internet Date of retrieval


Full URL


Retrieved http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ December 4, Hilton_Hotels 2007, from


Annals of Tourism


tourism management. Research.


More information on referencing (including other systems such as MLA) can be found on: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/ or www.westwords.com/guffey/apa.html


Title of journal Volume and page numbers 33, 199–220.


RMIT Publishing.


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