Language features and their effects Use this checklist: • to understand the ways in which writers gain impact in their writing • to use various features in your own writing (creative and transactional‚ as well as for your oral presentations) in order to craft your writing and gain impact • to help you achieve unit standards which require you to explore language and think critically about poetic / transactional / oral texts Language feature Definition or explanation Example General effect
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The Effects Of Technology On Relationships Posted by Alex Lickerman Print Print Email Email to a friend 115 Photo: Steve Keys Email‚ Twitter‚ Facebook‚ MySpace‚ YouTube‚ Delicious‚ Digg‚ LinkedIn‚ blogs (of course)‚ and scores of others—all part of the new and wonderful ways we can now connect with one another electronically‚ each with its own culture and unique set of rules. In one sense‚ the planet has never been more interconnected. And yet‚ this interconnectedness‚ while wonderful
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MANAGING COMMUNICATION & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FACILITATED BY NAMITA GUPTA 111 Learning Objectives You should learn to: Explain the barriers to effective interpersonal communication and how to overcome them Contrast the different organizational communication flows and networks Describe two developments in information technology that have had a significant impact on managerial communication Discuss how information technology affects organizations © Prentice Hall
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The use of technology has skyrocketed over the past few years‚ with a whopping ninetyfive percent of people utilizing the internet‚ constantly checking smartphones‚ and relying on other forms of media for entertainment‚ socializing‚ or work related instances. Compared with the digital satellites‚ MP3 players‚ and Palm Pilots of the 1990s‚ the technology today has truly advanced‚ causing many people to become dependent on media-related devices. More than fifty percent of today’s youth contribute to
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In modern society‚ technology has brought us amazing surprises everyday. Someone claims that modern technology is creating a single world culture. I completely disagree with this statement. I will list some of my reasons here. Firstly‚ I believe that modern technology has improved multi-culturalism and the communication between cultures. With modern communication technology such as TVs and phones‚ we can see what people at the other end of the world is doing‚ and with a modern airplane‚ we can
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In today’s digital landscape‚ the transformation to a world of wireless Internet access has shifted our mobile phones into virtual pocket computers. The Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI) has stated that smartphone users consume 30 times the data of a “traditional” handheld device‚ and AT&T alone reports that it is rolling out 2‚000 additional cell towers in 2009 in response to a 5‚000 percent growth in data usage over the last three years‚ largely due to the considerable popularity
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AP English Language and Composition‚ 4 11 November‚ 2010 Effects of Modern Age Technology “I cannot imagine how I would live without it.” These are the words uttered by countless teenagers and adults about the technology they use to enhance their daily lives. It is hard to remember the days of lugging around CD’s and walk-mans. Bicycles as transportation seem like a thing of the past. Writing notes and remembering information for the next day is long forgotten. Reading encyclopedias and using
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of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting language? There is a widespread view that as ‘technospeak’ comes to rule‚ standards will be lost. This project is an attempt to explore this linguistic problem. A qualitative and also quantitative study is conducted here to see how internet’s global scale and intensity is having an effect on language in general‚ and on individual languages in particular. Covering a range of Internet genres‚ including e-mail‚ chat and the
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Most people will praise the many technological gadgets that they use in their everyday lives. Technology is evolving at a very fast rate‚ and what most people did not even think could be real a few years ago is now becoming a reality. Cell phones that act more like computers‚ sans making documents and other important work files‚ have now taken the world by storm‚ and a lot of people could not imagine what life would now be like if they didn’t have the internet‚ email‚ and chat features on their phones
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the new world of information technology is only part of the equation. The other part‚ getting employees to sign on to the new technology‚ requires patience and a deep understanding of human nature. Why? Because many people fear new technology. There’s also a fear that new technology will either displace personnel into new and unfamiliar job functions or replace them altogether for the sake of cutting costs. The advent of the Information Age has spawned new technologies capable of improving nearly
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