Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

Author: Pilar Ordóñez-López

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1783096276

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This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. Based on corpus-driven studies, it includes a wide variety of approaches including cognitive, corpus and diachronic linguistics. Each chapter examines a different aspect of medical communication, including the use of metaphor referring to cancer, the importance of ethics in medical documents addressed to patients and the suitability of popular science articles for medical students. The book also features linguistic, textual and discourse-focused analysis of some fundamental medical genres. By combining sociological and linguistic research applied to the medical context, it illustrates how linguists and translation specialists can build bridges between health professionals and their patients.


Management Information Systems

Management Information Systems

Author: Kenneth C. Laudon

Publisher: Pearson Educación

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 9789702605287

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Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. The twelfth edition focuses on the major changes that have been made in information technology over the past two years, and includes new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases.


Communities of Practice

Communities of Practice

Author: Noriko Hara

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-10-20

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 354085424X

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1.1 Introduction Each year corporations spend millions of dollars training and educating their - ployees. On average, these corporations spend approximately one thousand dollars 1 per employee each year. As businesses struggle to stay on the cutting-edge and to keep their employees educated and up-to-speed with professional trends as well as ever-changing information needs, it is easy to see why corporations are investing more time and money than ever in their efforts to support their employees’ prof- sional development. During the Industrial Age, companies strove to control natural resources. The more resources they controlled, the greater their competitive edge in the mark- place. Senge (1993) refers to this kind of organization as resource-based. In the Information Age, companies must create, disseminate, and effectively use kno- edge within their organization in order to maintain their market share. Senge - scribes this kind of organization as knowledge-based. Given that knowledge-based organizations willcontinuetobeadrivingforcebehindtheeconomy, itisimperative that corporations support the knowledge and information needs of their workers.


Alinear para ganar

Alinear para ganar

Author: Cees B.M. Van Riel

Publisher: Editorial Almuzara

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 8483566451

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La mejor estrategia está condenada al fracaso si no cuenta con el apoyo de los grupos de interés clave de la compañía. Hoy, es imposible abrirse paso en los mercados globales y generar un valor sostenido en el tiempo sin el apoyo de los empleados, inversores, clientes, medios de comunicación y reguladores, entre otros. Este libro explica todo lo necesario para alinear a los grupos de interés clave para las compañías. Mediante el ejemplo de 40 empresas, el autor muestra cómo crear una estrategia y su posterior implantación para brindar a la empresa una influencia clave para abrir mercados, obtener licencias para operar y minimizar numerosos problemas.


Horizontes en la práctica docente. Complejidad, TIC y mediación educativa

Horizontes en la práctica docente. Complejidad, TIC y mediación educativa

Author: Genaro Aguirre Aguilar

Publisher: Caligrama

Published: 2020-10-02

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 8418073527

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Pensar la docencia desde la complejidad educativa. Esta obra reúne una serie de capítulos en los que se abordan temáticas relacionadas con la educación superior desde una mirada académica, destacándose como premisas el pensamiento complejo, las TIC, así como el trabajo estratégico que desempeña el docente como facilitador de procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje a nivel universitario. Para ello, se toma como contexto la llamada «sociedad de la información y el conocimiento», en donde se ha definido una nueva ordenanza global que deviene en marco de referencia para entender los procesos de transformación que se les requieren a las universidades, en términos de políticas educativas, para la innovación de su currículo, los modelos educativos, como la transformación de las prácticas pedagógicas de sus académicos. Lo obra integra una serie de textos en donde se analiza el fenómeno educativo, con énfasis en el papel que jueganlos docentes en la configuración de ambientes educativos que contribuyan al aprendizaje de sus estudiantes, para lo cual se proponen tres capítulos: «Perspectivas en la educación y el pensamiento complejo», «Comunicación, diversidad y mediación educativa» y «Sujetos de la educación y ámbitos emergentes para la enseñanza». Cada uno de los cuales se compone de textos que, en lo particular, abordan temáticas que permiten ampliar el horizonte desde el cual pueden se comprendidas problemáticas que caracterizan a la educación contemporánea en el nivel superior.


The Tacit Dimension

The Tacit Dimension

Author: Michael Polanyi

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0226672980

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"The Tacit Dimension" argues that tacit knowledge -tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments- is a crucial part of scientific knowledge. This volume challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief, lies at the heart of scientific discovery.


Teaching Tech Together

Teaching Tech Together

Author: Greg Wilson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1000728153

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Hundreds of grassroots groups have sprung up around the world to teach programming, web design, robotics, and other skills outside traditional classrooms. These groups exist so that people don't have to learn these things on their own, but ironically, their founders and instructors are often teaching themselves how to teach. There's a better way. This book presents evidence-based practices that will help you create and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them. Topics include the differences between different kinds of learners, diagnosing and correcting misunderstandings, teaching as a performance art, what motivates and demotivates adult learners, how to be a good ally, fostering a healthy community, getting the word out, and building alliances with like-minded groups. The book includes over a hundred exercises that can be done individually or in groups, over 350 references, and a glossary to help you navigate educational jargon.


Guía para padres y maestros de niños bilingües

Guía para padres y maestros de niños bilingües

Author: Alma Flor Ada

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2001-09-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1847695795

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This is a practical introduction to bilingualism answering the questions most frequently asked by parents and teachers on raising and educating bilingual children. Both authors draw on their academic expertise and ample field experience to provide straightforward answers, which contemplate multiple types of bilingual families and diverse societal conditions.


The Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education

The Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education

Author: Roger Mills

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-03-11

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1134649436

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This volume of essays from leading British, North American and Australasian contributors looks at the issues of the convergence of distance and conventional education. The term 'convergence' refers to the breaking down of barriers between open and distance learning and conventional institutions, and the creation of more and more institutions working across a range of modes. Such convergence has been driven by a number of factors, including the new technologies for teaching and learning, the impact of lifelong learning policies, the entry of larger than ever numbers of adult part-time students into tertiary education, and the demands of both employers and individuals for professional and work-related education throughout their working lives. The fourteen chapters engage critically with a range of aspects of convergence, including: * how well is open and distance learning carried out by conventional institutions for which it may continue for a lengthy period to be seen as of secondary importance? * to what extent will open and distance learning be more effectively carried out by conventional institutions able to offer a variety of modes to a wide range of learners? * how well will the variety of learners be served by systems that are converging? * what are the managerial issues at institutional level where converging systems are being developed?