Self-study
P1
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Intro to Topic ·
New Zealand wool industry
Golden age in the 1950s.
Problem ·
Decline in wool production and profitability
Details of Problem ·
Competition from synthetics
Downward pressure on prices of "strong wool."
P2
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Solution ·
Improve productivity to improve profitability
Productivity can be improved by adopting the best management and breeding practices.
P3
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Solution ·
Better farm management
Status Quo ·
Producers are divided
Professional farms achieve high profitability. Family farms do not. Hooking this back to the previous paragraph, presumably the idea is that the family farms can learn management practices from the professionals.
P4
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Solution ·
Establish commercial genetic research company
Not to increase wool processing efficiency. Instead, to focus on producing better quality wool more cheaply.
Passage Style
Problem-analysis
Single position
4.
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We don’t have evidence the author approves of competition. Competition is simply something that occurred that
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We don’t have evidence the author approves of changes in land use. The author notes that changes have occurred as
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the farming practices ██ ███ █████████ ██████ ███████ ███ ████ ████
If anything, the author might disapprove of these practices, because they don’t lead to the most productivity. The author wants better farm management and more wool production. She probably wouldn’t want farmers to be willing to have less production in order to maintain their lifestyle.
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If anything, the author might disapprove of these efforts, because those efforts would be
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There’s evidence the author implicitly approves of these practices, because the author