Frank Sligo (PhD, Massey University) is Professor of Communication at Massey University Wellington, New Zealand. His research areas of interest include adult literacy and orality, the knowledge gap hypothesis and information richness and poverty. His teaching interests are in student work-integrated learning.

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Orality and Literacy - Apprentices' Literacy and Orality - The Literacy Tutors - Supervisors and Communities of Practice - Liminal Literacy and Social Practice Views - Managers' Orality and Literacy - Literacy, Cognition, and Knowledge - References - Author Index - Subject Index.