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Reporting the Rhetoric, Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as Represented in Ireland's Second Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: A Critical Discourse Analysis
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Kiersey, Rachel A.; Hayes, Noirin – Child Care in Practice, 2010
Ireland's second periodic report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) presents the government's case that it is succeeding in protecting and promoting the rights of all children in Ireland. This article presents a critical discourse analysis of the government's Report to the CRC. Using a refined critical discourse…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
Visual Communication for Medicines: Malignant Assumptions and Benign Design?
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van der Waarde, Karel – Visible Language, 2010
An area of visual communication that might be classified as a "design failure" is the visual presentation of information about "prescription-only medicines" for patients. This information is provided on packaging, leaflets, brochures, labels and websites. The practical issue is that there are problems in convincing patients to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphic Arts, Design, Patients
"The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle": A Study of a Fifteenth-Century Technical Manual.
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Loges, Max – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1994
Studies the "The Treatise on Fishing with an Angle" from "The Book of Saint Albans" to determine how a 15th-century author approached the problem of writing accurate, technical prose on fishing. Shows how this old text shares many of the rhetorical strategies of modern technical writing. (HB)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Higher Education, Illustrations, Rhetoric