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When you are able to articulate, present and write better than others, you move into the extraordinary league. While most of us agree with these positive efforts of communication, we conveniently ignore the downside of communication breakdown, which can lead to stunted professional growth. This book will help you develop a communication strategy that can lead to improvements in your working style.

Workplace literacy. --- Occupational literacy --- Workforce literacy --- Functional literacy --- Business communication. --- Success in business.

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This book explains how information literacy (IL) is essential to the contemporary workplace and is fundamental to competent, ethical and evidence-based practice. In today's information-driven workplace, information professionals must know when research evidence or relevant legal, business, personal or other information is required, how to find it, how to critique it and how to integrate it into one's knowledge base. To fail to do so may result in defective and unethical practice which could have devastating consequences for clients or employers. There is an ethical requirement for information professionals to meet best practice standards to achieve the best outcome possible for the client. This demands highly focused and complex information searching, assessment and critiquing skills.

Information literacy. --- Culture de l'information --- Information literacy --- Workplace literacy --- E-books --- Literacy, Information --- Information science --- informatievaardigheden --- Occupational literacy --- Workforce literacy --- Functional literacy --- Workplace literacy.

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Integrating Career Preparation into Language Courses provides foreign and second language teachers with easy and practical additions they can make to their existing curricula to help their students develop real-world professional skills and prepare to use the target language successfully in the workplace. The book is organized into six chapters, each addressing a different professional skill and opening with an explanation of how content typically included in a foreign language curriculum can be tied to this skill. Each chapter closes with class activities or lesson plans that include suggested materials and assessments that teachers can easily add to their language courses. Lear's book is an accessible and practical guide designed to be adaptable for any language, offering exciting new possibilities to help teachers and students of foreign languages bring their language skills into the workplace.

Language and languages --- Workplace literacy --- Occupational literacy --- Workforce literacy --- Functional literacy --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Study and teaching. --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Study and teaching

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Drawing upon the author's on going research into information literacy, Information Literacy Landscapes explores the nature of the phenomenon from a socio-cultural perspective, which offers a more holistic approach to understanding information literacy as a catalyst for learning. This perspective emphasizes the dynamic relationship between learner and environment in the construction of knowledge. The approach underlines the importance of contextuality, through which social, cultural and embodied factors influence formal and informal learning. This book contributes to the understanding of inform

Information retrieval --- Information literacy. --- Learning. --- Informationskompetenz. --- Culture de l'information --- Apprentissage --- Information literacy --- Workplace literacy. --- Literacy, Information --- Information science --- Occupational literacy --- Workforce literacy --- Functional literacy --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Recherche de l'information --- Étude et enseignement (supérieur) --- Étude et enseignement (supérieur)

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This collection provides a kaleidoscopic view of a range of identity struggles in the workplace context. It features twenty-two case studies that present an eclectic mix of workplaces in different socio-cultural contexts. They include, among others, household workers in Peru and Hong Kong, female professionals in India and the UK, social workers in Botswana and on Canadian reserves, tourist guides in Europe and construction workers in New Zealand. The volume addresses important questions on professional competence, group membership, (sometimes competing) expectations, and identity boundaries. The chapters establish that identity struggles are a reflection of issues of knowledge, competing norms and attempts for social change.

Discourse analysis --- Identity (Psychology) --- Workplace literacy --- Professional employees --- Social interaction --- Communication in organizations --- Organizational communication --- Organization --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Professionals --- Employees --- Occupational literacy --- Workforce literacy --- Functional literacy --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Social aspects --- Language