Touchstone 2nd Edition Language summary Level 4

Unit 5 Lesson D: Your right to privacy

Writing
Giving reasons
You can use because, since, and as to give reasons:

Service providers should be required to give users clear instructions on how to protect
their personal information, because / since / as it's difficult to know how to do this.

Use since only to give reasons the reader already knows or can guess:

We need more laws to protect our privacy since everyone now has a smartphone.

As is more formal:

I also found it worrisome, as it seems there aren't enough laws.

Clauses for reasons can come before or after the main clause:

We need more laws to protect our privacy since everyone now has a smartphone.

Since everyone now has a smartphone, we need more laws to protect our privacy.

Cambridge University Press 2014 Unit 5, Lesson D, Page 1