Bailey.Academic_Writing

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5a
5b
3. . . . the present situation is caused by human consumption of plants, which has
resulted in a steady increase in agriculture and a consequent reduction in habitat
for animals.
4. Lord May also pointed out that it was very difficult to make accurate estimates as
nobody knew how many species of animals lived on the planet.
. . . bottled water costs 700 times more than tap water, but is often of inferior quality.
. . . although bottled water advertising often associated the product with sport and
health there was no truth in this link.
Labels on bottled water often referred to ‘spring’ and ‘natural water’, which were
meaningless phrases.
Now the genetic code of the plague bacterium has been ‘read’ by scientists; a total of
465 million ‘letters’ of DNA. They believe that this will help in the development of
vaccines for the plague . . .
1.7 Note-making
1 to keep a record of reading/lectures
to revise for exams
to help remember main points
to prepare for essays
2 Before: listening/reading/selecting
After: writing/speaking
3 Source: Lee, Y. (2005) Computing Tomorrow 15 pp. 134–7.
Computer passwords
generally used to protect sites from hackers
Drawbacks
a) office workers must remember av. 12 passwords most use same one
b) many use simple words hackers can easily crack
c) expense of supplying replacements for forgotten passwords
d) need to write down new passwords reduces security
Solutions
Passfaces (Real User)
a) user remembers set of photos of faces in order – selected from random pattern
b) works because people can recognise large number faces
c) more secure – cannot be passed on
d) more easily remembered