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Christmas
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spondence should be devoid of careful planning and editing. O...
... watching television, gardening, reading newspapers,
magazines and books, shopping, telephoning, going to the pub, doing nothing, writing letters,
sleeping, playing computer games, and typing ... (Fernández-
Maldonado, 2001).
This pervasive, real-world Internet does not function on its own, but is embedded in the
real -life things that people do. Just as all-Internet commerce is being...
... of complaint, letters to
the editor, and college application essays.
ust like writing for information and understanding, writing to persuade is used in everyday life.
Whether you’re trying to persuade ... with you for an interview and I could see you any day after three o’clock. I look
forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Connie Counselor
PERSUASION IN EVERYDAY WRITING EXPRESS...
... as checking e-mail, up-
loading a mov ie to YouTube, online role-playing, listening to mp3 music, or using
an e-learning environment. When it comes to digital material, the lines separating
objects, ... audiences in sustained two-way interac-
tions using electronic mail, interactive dial ogue, virtual communicat ion, interac-
tive video games, and interactive Internet games’ (ibid, 5 7-8...
... have
not begun integrating RFID to the extent that had been projected. Accord-
ing to one industry analyst, the RFID industry “continues to over-promise
and under-deliver,” reporting that the ... regimes in ways that bear distinct resemblance to older forms of
embodiment. e continuing salience of race, class, and gender in deter-
mining whose bodies come under routine surveillance wit...
... expected life- time earnings of high-productivity
individuals and diminishes expected income of low-productivity individuals. The former
are therefore reducing their precautionary savings, whereas ... other measures of individual in-
come uncertainty: the income quintile share ratio (income of the 20% richest to income
of 20% poorest), the percentage of working households in the risk of...