THE UK, A MARITIME POWER? • • METHOD 2
Stage 1 - Introduction: presenting the documents
Similarities: Both documents deal with UK’s changing relationship to the sea to stay a maritime power that is to say ...def... on a national (UK & OTs) scale. They come from the same report entitled Foresight Future of the Sea by the gvt chief scientific adviser published by the Gvt Office for Science in 2018.
Differences: The 1st document focuses on UK’s strategy whereas the 2nd one is a bar graph showing maritime industries jobs & value added.
Announce structure: In a 1st part we’ll see that the sea is essential to the UK & in a 2nd part I’ll analyse how the UK needs to adapt.
Stage 2 - Analysing the documents
DESCRIBING - What you see (docs) |
INTERPRETING - What you know (facts & notions) |
1. The sea, essential to the UK with §1 & the bar graph |
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P1. A source of mostly economic wealth : |
- The UK a seapower (def) + OTs (def) |
2. But the UK needs to adapt : threats => more sustainability thanks to §2 & graph |
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P2 But maritime environment threatened |
- Threats : small islands “drowning” as sea rises, pollution like in Pitcairn Henderson Island (highest world plastic density) or UK fishing victim of Brexit (facts) |
Stage 3 - Concluding
Assess docs (reliable/biased justified): To conclude, these documents are reliable reliable as we have their full references and both unbiased as they describes the facts (+ & -) or give figures.
Sum-up ideas These docs show that UK’s power depends on maritime economy and environment which is why it needs to adopt more sustainable practices to reduce maritime risks and boost its economy - and good image.
+ Open We may wonder in what way UK’s hard power also depends on the sea.