Question 6: Guided reading comprehension and text-editing (5) Insert the grammatical forms of the bolded words in the text below as instructed in the
brackets.
Textual orientation
Title: Business writing in academic and workplace contexts
Source Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Writing produced in the workplace is usually produced in a (6.1 insert adjective formed from
layer) manner, the 'lesser' genres of e-mails and memoranda are drawn on in the production
of the major' genres, such as reports. In workplaces a range of earlier texts are drawn (6.2
insert an appropriate preposition) in the production of a new text. In the higher education
contexts, students are generally required to produce a piece of business writing without base
documents (such as memoranda in the production of a report) and would be expected to create
them from scratch. In academic settings, business writing is often (6.3 insert past participle
formed from pedagogy) for learning purposes; exercises that may have originated in a
workplace are adapted simplified, (6.4 insert a parallel form of standard), and de-
contextualised for educational purposes. Samples of standard, de-contextualised documents are
often provided in a bound set of notes or in a textbook. Writing (6.5 insert the correct form of
the noun course) are often constructed as separate from the practices in which they are intended
to prepare students,