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Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...physical things, for example ‘bicycle’, ‘shop’, ‘director’. These are known as concrete nouns. Some nouns are not physical things that you can see or touch; they are more like ideas or processes, for example ‘capacity’, ‘production’ or ‘competition’. These are known as abstract nouns. Abstract nouns are very common in academic business language as...
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...physical, mental or emotional harm or economic loss which was directly caused by a criminal offence a close relative of someone whose death was caused by a criminal offence. Businesses and organisations may also be victims of crime. Some crimes may not have actual victims, but pose a risk to potential victims. Consider the following extract from a newspaper report. Nobody...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...physically close the book, or turn a page over) – this helps to remove the temptation to ‘just check’ as you make your notes. Start by listing the essential ideas, using key words or short phrases. Using these key words/phrases, write some notes in full sentences that express your understanding of the original source. Keep in mind that you are focussing on the core...
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...physical forces such as pressure, surface tension, resistance and compliance determine the amount of airflow through the respiratory and conduction zones of the respiratory system...Blood and the respiratory system: 1.1 Structure of the respiratory system - Pulmonary ventilation, the movement of air into and out of the lungs, involves the main structures of the...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...physically incapacitated and so cannot take their own lives. However, others believe that it is morally wrong in any circumstances to help someone to die and campaign against the right to die...Week 1: What is law?: 4 Law and justice - Interconnected with the ideas of law and morality is the notion of justice. Achieving justice is often regarded as the main aim or...
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...physics, completely accept that. RH: Well you say that, but there were some sceptics, you wouldn’t put yourself in this camp presumably, who have resisted each one of those facts along the way and slowly, slowly moved along? MR: There are certainly some sceptics who’ve resisted those facts all along, but I’m not convinced that there are some who started out...
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...Physical, temporal and social psychological contexts can seriously impact on a person’s identity, their ability to learn and to re-form their identity. ‘I’m at university now so I’m a student, I’m at work now so I’m an employee, I’m home now so I’m a daughter/son/mother/father’. Who we are, is very tightly interwoven with what we have learned (Bernstein...
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...physical descriptions or signalment and signatures in an effort to make individual identification secure. Such means were far from foolproof and a range of schemes, including Bertillon's anthropometric descriptor of the ear, were developed in an attempt to secure more objective means of identification in advance of the widespread and effective use of photography. While...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs