Finding Common Ground

This book, Finding Common Ground: Selected Newspaper Columns of Ian Boxill, 1993-2000, literally represents the best articles written by Ian Boxill over a period of seven years (March 1993 to August 2000) on the opinion page of the Daily Gleaner in Jamaica. The book seeks - more so than the individual articles themselves, which were written with the general public in mind - to help graduates across the Caribbean region fulfil that obligation ... to become habitual readers (and writers). The hope is that they will not only read on matters relating to their own training and work, but also on issues of interest and concern to society in general and to the world today. In particular, the book also targets pre-university and first-year university students - especially those enrolled in degrees that involve basic or advanced expository or argumentative writing. In addition, it lends itself to 6th form students, those in community colleges, teacher- training colleges and other tertiary level institutions, who are learning to formulate and express a personal but informed opinion, in speech or writing, on topical events.

- From the Editor's Preface

Professor Ian Boxill, Author, currently serves as Deputy Principal of The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. Prior to that he was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Director of the Centre for Tourism and Policy Research, and Head of the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work in that faculty.

David Eric King, Editor, taught Use of English at The University of the West Indies, Mona for three decades before retiring from the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy in 2002. A graduate of the UWI, Mona in the 1950s, he remains highly respected by both his former students and peers as a teacher and scholar of English. An active member of the Methodist Church, he became a fully accredited local preacher in 1997 and in 2022 was recognised for his contribution to the Providence Methodist Church.