According to the passage, ‘Writing to Communicate’ effectively is governed by techniques that are oftentimes seen in ‘effective writing’ for which strategies can be given to readers that will facilitate them understanding the intent of writers (Ormrod, 1999). There are ten (10) such strategies. The use of ‘appropriate’ linguistic structure is a prerequisite strategy that aids in the process of communicating the intended message. The other examples here are precision of thoughts, which relate...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc. (Hons.); Dip. Edu. According to Mead (1934), “language is the means whereby individuals can indicate to one another what their responses to objects will be, and hence what the meanings of objects are . . .” Within Mead’s perspective lies the essence of writing at graduate level: it is a process that is succinct, precise, logical and objective. Language, therefore, must convey its intended meanings. Embedded within language, at this level, is...
Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc (Hons.); Dip. Edu. An investigation into the attitudes of school personnel toward ‘gifted’ children in two inner-city secondary school in Kingston, Jamaica. INTRODUCTION The education system is a mode of psychosocial and cultural socialization for all societies (Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). It is through this medium that many children are exposed to the requirements of an organic society. Societies function on the basis of solidarity; the purpos...
AUTHOR: Mohammed TEXTBOOK: Contending with Destiny: The Caribbean in the 21st Century EDITOR: Professor Kenneth Hall and Denis Benn Paul Andrew Bourne, B.Sc. (Hons); Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Mohammed (2000) in “Contending with destiny: The Caribbean in the 21st Century” forwarded a viewpoint on the changing roles of women in Caribbean societies that exposed some of the socio-cultural biases in past as well as contemporary societies. The writer’s monograph lacked critical s...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, MSc. (pending), BSc. (Hons.) “Poor people have to meet the increasing price of foodstuffs whose extra cost does not necessarily mean an increase in nutritional value; indeed in many cases much of the food in advanced societies is losing its food value.” Andrew Webster, 1970, p.16 Webster’s sociological perspective clearly shows that the disadvantaged within our societies are continuously confronted with the situation of having to meet the rising cost of...
BY PAUL ANDREW BOURNE, M.Sc. (pending); B.Sc.; Dip. Edu. INTRODUCTION Drug use among youth is explaining many of their social deviant behaviour. With the widespread availability and enormous variety of drugs, serious implications are placed on the society. Kleber (1994) confirmed that the use and abuse of drugs is a critical issue in most societies and it is associated with social and economic consequences. The desire to pursue this study is based on prevailing concern of the prevalen...
About Paul Andrew BourneThe author, Paul Andrew Bourne, holds a Masters of Science degree in Demography, a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Demography from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies; and a Diploma in Teaching from the University of Technology, Jamaica. Mr. Bourne is the co-author of a text titled “Probing Jamaica’s Political Culture, volume 1: Main Trends in the July-August 2006 Leadership and Governance Survey, 2007”. But this only me...
By Paul Andrew Bourne emes and Perspectives, 6th. London: Harper Collins Publishers.
Paul Andrew Bourne In contemporary as well as in traditional societies, economic growth continues to be a topical issue. Macroeconomists and developmental economists (for example Hanson 1986; Todaro 2000) have further sought to distinguish between development and economic growth. The latter is oftentimes expressed with plethora of mathematical notations, whereas the former requires the latter. To some scholars, growth is product of the expansion of an economy other a previous period ...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, December 26, 2006 I stood perched on the mountain like a thief, like a thief like a thief I stood in a surveillance mode searching for the cracks, the weaknesses and the opportunities but what I saw was the vengeance that I had to express – I felt the pain darting at by being with a marksman precision I was a genie constructing bridges, barricades, and closets without that exist I wanted it, so earnestly – I wanted to eat it yes eat the ...
By Paul Andrew Bourne, December 25, 2006 I see not love again because of my former years I kept the hate of love lost bottled deep inside as - those days that I loved I did with the heart of a fool for I kept pouring my love in a broken cistern I could see that priceless substance flowing through the wind and I could see the open heart of my receptor allowing the love its free passage to somewhere called nowhere I felt an avalanche of hatred with the force of a volcano th...
Paul Andrew Bourne, 2006 INTRODUCTION I know that in writing the following pages I am divulging the great secret of my life, the secret which for some years I have guarded far more carefully than any of my earthly possession; and it is a curious study to me to analyze the motives which prompt me to do it. I feel that I am led by the same impulse which forces the unfound out criminal to take somebody into his confidence, although he knows that the act is likely, even almost c...
An overview of the influence of the school and the family on ones sociopolitical socialization PAUL ANDREW BOURNE, M.Sc (pending); B.Sc (Hons); Dip. Edu. Introduction Culture has three major tenets, and these are: ‘technological’, ‘sociological’ and ‘ideological’ (Bourne, 2006; Thomlinson, 1965) Political Sciences cannot be viewed in a vacuum disconnected from the other sub-disciplines of the social sciences, as it is continuously interfacing with issues in sociolog...