Bailey.Academic_Writing

26 The Writing Process: Reading and Note-making
One possible alternative has been developed by the
American firm Real User, and is called Passfaces. In order
to access the system a worker has to select a series
of photographs of faces from a randomly generated
sequence. If the pictures are selected in the correct
order access is granted. This concept depends on the
human ability to recognise and remember a huge number
of different faces, and the advantage is that such a
sequence cannot be told to anyone or written down, so
is more secure. It is claimed that the picture sequence,
which uses photographs of university students, is easier
to remember than passwords, and it has now been
adopted for the United States Senate.
Source: Lee, Y. (2005) Computing Tomorrow 15 pp.134–
137.
Computer passwords
– generally used to protect sites from hackers
Drawbacks
a) office workers must remember av. 12 passwords
most use same one
b)
c)
d)
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a)
b)
c)
d)
cross-reference
2.11 References and
Quotations
3.1 Abbreviations
4. Effective note-making
employs
• Headings, sub-headings, underlining and listing to
organise the data clearly
• Simplified grammar (few articles, pronouns or
prepositions)
• Symbols (such as = or +) and abbreviations (pp. or av.)
NB
a) Do not abbreviate too much, or you may find the notes
impossible to understand in the future.