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This volume reports the results of a series of investigations of the properties of writing tasks, their authors' intentions, and the responses that these tasks evoked in student-writers and teacher-raters.

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The first empirical study of the inner workings of South Africa's dysfunctional policy development process, exposing the challenges of large-scale policy overhaul and the frictions at the heart of the South African state.

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The first empirical study of the inner workings of South Africa's dysfunctional policy development process, exposing the challenges of large-scale policy overhaul and the frictions at the heart of the South African state.

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Distinguished experts on African development offer their considerable knowledge and background to the coming crisis in Africa. They examine not only development but also related factors such as foreign trade, politics, indigenous traditions, and international relations in order to understand development problems on the continent.

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This volume focuses on the use of dialogue journals in classrooms with students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds whose proficiency with spoken and written English is limited.

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This volume focuses on the use of dialogue journals in classrooms with students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds whose proficiency with spoken and written English is limited.

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This work is a compilation of about four thousand quotations on reading, writing, speaking, and listening as well as related topics of advertising, business, computers, education, film, journalism, language, photography, public relations, rhetoric, television, and world communications.

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Joining the debate on gender differences, this book presents a cross-section of current research in communication, language, and gender studies. Examining what researchers mean by gender differences and values implicit in the term is critical to understanding current trends in gender studies.

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This study moves from a general consideration of how computers are changing literacy to a specific consideration of how computers are altering reading and writing fiction. It includes interviews with makers of hypertext fictions, close readings of digital fictions, and analyses of the genre.

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This study moves from a general consideration of how computers are changing literacy to a specific consideration of how computers are altering reading and writing fiction. It includes interviews with makers of hypertext fictions, close readings of digital fictions, and analyses of the genre.

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Scholars across several disciplines discuss possible negative economic and social consequences of international military disarmament, including unemployment associated with the conversion from a military industrial economy to a civilian complex, conversion costs and reduced R & D.

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Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown 'globalization' the concept This book presents a work of vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post-Cold War, post-September 11 world. It analyses just how complex these profound global changes have become.

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A critique of conventional approaches to communication research, the authors argue that the impact of gender on research practives has been ignored.

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A critique of conventional approaches to communication research, the authors argue that the impact of gender on research practives has been ignored.

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This book looks beyond the apparently united and generally self-congratulatory statements of The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and many large bilateral aid donors to examine what actually happened when they tried to work together in restoring stability and establishing governance in the territory.

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Examines Eisenhower's skills as a communicator, showing how he used language to achieve carefully conceived strategic purposes in the Cold War. If he seemed befuddled, he actually knew exactly what he was doing and why, using half-truths, ambiguity and the right audience to his own ends.

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This edited collection offers a comprehensive examination of theory, research, and practice in crisis (hostage) negotiation from the perspectives of communication, law enforcement, psychology, sociology, and criminology.

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Unravels the governance challenges preventing Nigeria from diversifying its economy away from oil

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This wide-ranging text introduces the causes of economic growth and stagnation across countries. It combines consideration of proximate causes as well as systemic factors, and provides the historical context and theoretical background to aid understanding of international disparities.

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The book is tightly constructed around three sections. The first section identifies the field of global citizenship. The second section identifies a Youth-led Learning approach to global citizenship.