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Introduction to Intelligence Studies
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Introduction to Intelligence Studies

by Carl J. Jensen III, David H. McElreath, Melissa Graves
November 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
374 pages
12h 7m
English
CRC Press
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Identifying Agents
Providing clarity about agents makes a decision-maker’s job easier. Consider
the following sentence:
To get from the United States to France, an airplane must be own.
is sentence starts with an innitive—“to get.” Unfortunately for the
reader, the sentence does not name an actor. Such an omission makes the
sentence sound terribly theoretical and abstract; this is a sentence with gen-
eralized advice directed toward no one. To make this a better sentence, the
writer should identify an agent:
To get from the United States to France, you must y on an airplane.
e identication of the actor—you—makes for a better sentence because
the reader now knows the person to whom the sentence refers. ...
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