Bailey.Academic_Writing

1.7 Note-making
Effective note-making is a key writing skill, with a number of practical
uses. Good note-making techniques lead to accurate essays.
Although you are the only person who will read your notes, clarity and
organisation are important to save time and errors at the writing
stage.
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1.2 Avoiding Plagiarism
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1.6 Selecting Key Points
1. What are the main reasons for note-taking?
Add to the ideas below.
a) to avoid plagiarism
b)
c)
d)
2. Effective note-making is part of a sequence.
What comes before and after?
Note-making
3. You are writing an essay on ‘Computer security’. You find
the following extract from an article in a magazine called
Computing Tomorrow, volume 15 (2005), on pages 134–7. The
author is Y. Lee. Read the text and complete the notes.
PICTURE PASSWORDS?
In computing, passwords are commonly used to limit
access to official users. Yet the widespread use of
passwords has serious drawbacks. Office workers
now have to remember an average of twelve system
passwords. In theory they should use different passwords
for each site, but in reality these would be impossible to
remember, so many people use the same password for
all. An additional problem is that the majority use simple
words such as hello, or names of family members, instead
of more secure combinations of numbers and letters,
such as 6ANV76Y. This permits computer hackers to
download dictionaries, which will quickly find the word
and allow them access.
When system users forget their passwords there is extra
expense in supplying new ones, while if people are forced
to change passwords frequently they often write them
down, making systems even less secure. Therefore, it is
clear that the idea of passwords, which have been used
as security devices for thousands of years, may need
rethinking.