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What is in it for me?
21 Jun 2009
As far as organizational communication goes, this is one question that many a communicator should always take into account. Place oneself into the target audience’s shoes and ask, “What’s in it for me?”
Whenever I teach business communication, the [...]
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- Tags: Business, Communication, Organization, Writing
Textbook writing should be collaborative
7 Jun 2009Recently, in between the sex scandal issue and the ConAss, the Inquirer ran a series of articles focusing on the poor quality of English textbooks made and published for the basic education level.
As one who has written textbooks (both in technology learning and English), I know that writing a textbook is one arduous task. It’s [...]
Ready… Set… Write!
In: Education
11 Feb 2009As of today, I am embarking on the second longest writing work of my life – my graduate thesis.
My undergraduate thesis was a critical discourse analysis of the Inquirer’s representations of Fernando Poe Jr. in its editorials. It was a fun topic to write about. Nearly got me the best thesis award for the year [...]
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- Tags: Academics, Thesis, Writing
Wee, I’m cited by the Blog Herald!
28 Feb 2007Thanks to J. Angelo for extending my discussion on blogging and generalizations. And on the Blog Herald no less!
I’m seeing great inputs from the comments. I love his take on the differences of perspectives used by bloggers. This diversity, I guess, gives the much needed color to the blogosphere that reflects our own diversity as [...]
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- Tags: Academics, Blogging, Education, Internet and Web, Opinion, Reactions, Writing
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Hi! I'm Alex, a 20-something blogger writing about the discourses of social media. Once in a while I still let slip posts about the mundane, the asinine, and the trivial. Feel free to contact me.
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