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Xxxiv P R E FAC E Preface Acknowledgments We have many people to thank for their help in making this book possible. Because it’s a book that breaks the mold in many respects, all of them deserve credit for their vision and persistence. We would like to thank Leslie Taggart for her expert stewardship of this project from its inception. We will take all the credit for every instance when it falls short of her high standards. Michael Rosenberg, Publisher at Thomson Wadsworth, has likewise supported our work enthusiastically.
Multilingual writers may find the explicit See page 230. xxviii P R E FAC E Preface definitions and comparisons in the Words about Words boxes particularly useful. summary A concise restatement of the main ideas of a source, written in your own words. A summary gives the gist of the source without using the source’s words or sentence structure. Depending on the purpose the summary needs to fulfill, it may include just the major ideas of a source or the more important examples as well. A summary must be fully documented, including the page range for the information summarized.
Smart Mobs, a concept described by Howard Rheingold in his book with that title, are groups of protesters who take advantage of communication and Internet technologies (cell phones, GPS trackers, blogs) to organize their activities quickly and efficiently. As a site of civic action, the Internet can also become an instrument of propaganda, which is rhetoric that deliberately advocates a position while suppressing alternative perspectives. Only Connect . . Their site uses Drupal, open source software that enables networked blogging, RSS feeds, and much more.