International trade
Started: Sep 4, 2021 Submitted: Sep 5, 2021
International Trade Raciel Vera
Essay International Trade
International trade refers to the exchange of goods or services conducted between at least two countries. The goods being exchanged can be exports
or imports in bilateral or multilateral trade. Furthermore, exports are the goods sold out of the country, while imports are goods brought in the
country. Hence, international trade is beneficial to the countries involved in various ways, which include:
The countries in the business experience increased revenues by having an increased number of potential clients purchasing the products imported
or exported. For instance, each country added to the international trade opens a new pathway for business growth and increased revenues.
Additionally, international trade gives room for specialization by opening avenues for a new line of products. Further, countries participating in
international trade are encouraged to sell what they are best at producing, increasing the market, and reducing the competition rate.
Though the globalized economy has made it easier to trade between countries, international trade is still faced with disadvantages: customs and
duties charged on the imported or exported goods are high and sometimes make it harder to make profits on the shipped goods. Different
countries involved in international trade have varying customs and duties on other goods. Further, international trade is hindered by the language
barrier, which prevents effective communication. However, online translators tend not to translate perfectly when interpreting the instructions and
communication in another language. For instance, interpreting from China to American English may not be perfectly done.
MY Tutor Feedback Focus
Revision Goal 1: Establish and maintain a controlling idea or bottom line throughout the document in order to achieve the purpose established in your writing prompt.
1. Re-read your document. Find the sentence you used as the controlling idea or bottom line of your document.
Example: Omar has focused on this idea in his document: "Telecommuting has drawbacks for the employer and employee."
2. Highlight all the areas in your document that are on track with your controlling idea or bottom line.
Example: Omar finds several sentences that are on track with his controlling idea, including these:
"Employers have to spend money to create the infrastructure that will allow their employees to telecommute." "Employees who telecommute sometimes miss informal but important meetings."
3. Use key words from your controlling idea and transitional expressions to refer back to the sentence that defines the controlling idea or bottom line.
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Example: Omar still has to make sure that the ideas in his document are connected, so he uses key words from his controlling idea as well as transitional expressions to connect his thoughts: "One drawback of telecommuting is that employers have to spend money to create the infrastructure that will allow their employees to telecommute. In addition, employees can suffer drawbacks too. For example, an employee who telecommutes might miss an informal but important lunchtime meeting."
Revision Goal 2: Understand and connect with the intended audience.
1. Re-read your document. Highlight sentences that demonstrate a lack of adaptation to the audience.
Example: Eliza reads her document and realizes that even though she had the best of intentions, these sentences are likely to upset the very audience they are aimed at, certainly not the purpose of the document: "Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, but we also recognize there are challenges to quitting. The management team is unhappy with smokers, who take unnecessary smoking breaks and drive up the cost of our insurance. To provide a better health care experience for all of us at XYZ, we have implemented the following anti-smoking policies."
2. Pay attention to the audience's knowledge, needs, beliefs, and/or feelings.
Example: Eliza revises the sentences to show greater sensitivity and respect for smokers and their feelings, while still maintaining management's authority. "The management team at XYZ company acknowledges how difficult it is to quit smoking, despite the health benefits of doing so. As we evaluate the smoking policy and health care coverage in regard to smoking cessation programs, we will consider the rights and responsibilities of all employees -- those who smoke, those who are trying to quit, and those who do not smoke."
Content
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Example: Brian finds a sentence in his document that could be further developed: "A diverse audience requires a presenter to consider more closely how to deliver the message of the presentation."
2. Add details such as reasons, explanations, facts, or arguments that can support your ideas.
Example: Brian realizes that the diversity of the audience is an area that could use further development. He chooses to focus on the diversity of technological knowledge in the audience, particularly the difference between expert and novice understanding.
3. Now incorporate those supporting ideas into your document.
Example: Brian adds some minor descriptive elements to help incorporate his supporting details into his document: "Closely observing the audience's diversity will help presenters in demonstrating 'cloud computing' to certified network specialists differently than they would to fifth graders."
Revision Goal 2: Show the use and understanding of business concepts and terms.
1. Re-read through your document and highlight at least two areas where you can include relevant business concepts or terms.
Example: One of the areas that Riva finds is this sentence: "Discussions about how much money our country owes focus on what the government owes and often ignore what ordinary people and companies owe."
2. Create a list of three business concepts or business terms that could be included in your document in these areas.
Example: Riva creates a list of business terms that fit this subject:
"Public debt." "Private debt." "Economy."
3. Now incorporate these business concepts or terms into your document.
Example: Riva incorporates the terms into her sentence: "Discussions about our national economy often focus on public debt but ignore private debt."
Organization
Revision Goal 1: Establish and maintain a controlling idea or bottom line throughout the document.
1. Re-read your document. Highlight sentences that could serve as the controlling idea or bottom line. You may also write a new sentence if you wish.
Example: Elsie's document is disorganized, but once she reads it again, she finds the sentence she wants to use as a controlling idea: "Adopting the free and open source operating system (FOSS) will hinder the ability of our teen youth group to function."
2. Now that you have the controlling idea or bottom line of your document, brainstorm support for it. This support will become the bottom line or controlling
idea of the paragraphs in your document.
Example: Elsie can think of three ways that adopting the FOSS can hinder the ability a teen youth group to function. The first is that time spent learning FOSS could be better used doing other things. The mainstream operating system is already familiar to everyone, so there is no training needed for it. In addition, the mainstream operating system (MOS) has a 24-hour support staff, as opposed to the volunteers that offer "support" for the FOSS. Finally, using the MOS in an office environment will give teens a valuable job skill, as opposed to the FOSS, which is used by only a small fraction of companies.
3. For each paragraph, brainstorm at least three supporting details.
Example: Elsie decides to start with the comparative value of the MOS and the FOSS to teens about to enter the job market. She brainstorms the following supporting details:
"Employers all over the world use MOS as a matter of course." "Few employers use FOSS." "Employers value job candidates who can use the MOS expertly." "Only a few value those that can program the FOSS." "Most of our clients (and employees) are not capable of programming the FOSS but are capable of using the MOS."
4. Integrate key words from your controlling idea into your supporting details. In addition, use transitional expressions to connect your thoughts.
Example: Elsie now has to take the ideas she brainstormed and turn them into a paragraph that will fit into her document. This is what she writes: "Adopting the free and open source software (FOSS) will hinder one of our group's goals, which is to help troubled teens find employment. Most companies are looking for experienced users of the MOS, not the FOSS. In addition, those companies looking for experience with FOSS want job candidates who can program the FOSS, not just use it. Unfortunately, we do not have the expertise or time to teach our clients or our staff or volunteers to program the FOSS. To adopt it would greatly distract us from our goal of finding our clients jobs."
Language
Revision Goal 1: Accentuate the positive and de-emphasize the negative in your document.
1. Re-read your document. Highlight all words and phrases that sound negative such as do not, no, stop, and not, as well as words that convey a negative, unpleasant, or disagreeable tone such as unfortunately, cannot, unable to, problem, difficult, error, loss, failure, or regret.
Example: Yudi focuses on these sentences, which have two negative words or phrases sure to upset investors: "Unfortunately, although our company strives for excellence, we sometimes fall short."
2. Revise your document to accentuate the positive and de-emphasize the negative.
Example: Yudi revises her sentences to focus on what the company has accomplished. Revising the sentence adds a positive tone to her document: "Our company has always striven for excellence and continues to do so in a competitive marketplace."
Revision Goal 2: Use active voice.
1. Read your document and highlight all sentences that use passive voice.
Example: Erica reads her document and finds several sentences in the passive voice, including this one: "The business was invested in by foreign companies."
2. Revise those sentences so that they are in the active voice.
Example: Erica moves the companies to the front of the sentence: "Foreign companies invested in the business."
Revision Goal 3: "Omit needless words." -- Strunk and White
1. Re-read your document. Highlight all wordy sentences.
Example: Stephen reads his document, and one of the sentences he highlights is this: "It was extremely disappointing to hear the truly awful news."
2. Revise all highlighted sentences.
Example: Stephen realizes that the sentence has so much repetition that many revisions are possible. He decides to keep it short and keep the most intense word: "The news was awful."
Revision Goal 4: Connect sentences with conjunctions that express the relationship between the sentences.
1. Read your document. Look for groups of sentences that seem disjointed.
Example: Michelle highlights this passage in her document: "Inventory was not turning over quickly enough. The manager considered having a sale."
2. Connect disjointed sentences.
Example: Michelle realizes that the sentences, although grammatically correct, should be connected with a conjunction that expresses the cause and effect relationship between them: "Inventory was not turning over quickly enough, so the manager considered having a sale."
Revision Goal 5: Vary sentence openings.
1. Re-read your document. Highlight any passages that have several sentences that begin with the same word or phrase.
Example: Demetrius highlights this passage in his document: "The accountant was unsure what to do when she discovered the error. The accountant decided to investigate further."
2. Revise sentences by changing one of the openings or combining the sentences.
Example: Demetrius tries two different revisions:
"The accountant was unsure what to do when she discovered the error. This mistake needed further investigation." "The accountant was unsure what to do when she discovered the error, so she decided to investigate further."
Mechanics
Revision Goal 1: Follow these steps to improve your use of mechanics and conventions.
Use the MY Editor feedback to improve your understanding of mechanics and conventions.
1. Pay attention to the specific feedback that MY Editor gives you as you compose and edit your document. Begin by revising any spelling or punctuation errors you have committed. Then run MY Editor again to reexamine any remaining grammar errors that remain. 2. Write down the terms used in the feedback. 3. Study the terms that came up most often. 4. When you master your understanding of a particular term, move on to a new one.
Network to improve your understanding of mechanics and conventions.
1. Start or join a small, serious study group on the topic of mechanics and conventions. 2. Ask your instructor to recommend other resources to help you master mechanics and conventions.
When you rewrite your document, pay attention to your sentences to avoid errors in mechanics and conventions.
1. Place a period at the end of each of your complete thoughts/sentences. 2. Place the subjects of your sentences as close as you can to the beginning of your sentences.
When you rewrite your document, focus on correcting the errors that came up the most often in the original document.