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Whose Book Is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity
Whose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether.
How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition
Edwin Abbott Abbott sets out rules and exercises for clear English composition. Examples examine word order, emphasis, ambiguity and the arrangement of sentences and paragraphs.
The King's English
H. W. and F. G. Fowler examine English usage through examples of vocabulary, syntax, punctuation and style. Their discussions consider clarity, ambiguity, unnecessary ornament and the choices that affect how sentences are understood.
Who Counts? Ghanaian Academic Publishing and Global Science
An examination of academic publishing in Ghana within the wider system of scholarly communication. The book considers publishers, citation indexes, institutional recognition and the ways research is produced, circulated and evaluated.