English for academic purposes answers to exercises – Features of academic writing

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9.5 
– Quotations 
Exercise 1 (Examples) 
a)
 
The fashion 
industry has adopted the idea of ‘fast fashion’ for several reasons. 
Primarily, 
“to boost sales and keep their clients entertained.” (Barnes, 2018) 
b)
 
These poor working conditions have led to horrific accidents. 
In Bangladesh, one incident resulted in 
“1,134 people” losing their life “due to structural 
failure in a garments factory.
” (Barnes, 2018) 
c)
 
Furthermore, the fashion industry blindly ignores the use of child labour. 
UNICEF (2017 as cited in Barnes, 2018) claimed 
that “over 150 million children are working in 
the fashion manufacturing industry worldwide”. 
d)
 
Additionally, these workshops encourage the practice of ‘soft slavery’. 
Barnes (2018) describes this as keeping people 
“indebted to third parties for securing them 
jobs in garment factories” by “giving away most of their small earnings to pay off that debt 
that will never end
.” 
e)
 
Owners of these factories and workshops blame the retailers for their problems. 
They claim that there is “significant pressure from the retailers, as they demand faster 
production times and lower prices” which results in factories needing to “work with the worst 
materials and a lack of care for the manufacturing process” (Barnes, 2018). 
 
Exercise 2 (example answers) 
a)
 
Including the need to maintain their customer’s interest and increase sales. (Barnes, 2018)