ABSTRACT
This is a sort of turning point in this book. The chapters up to this point have provided background to being assertive in the academic context. They have covered what assertiveness is and how it is displayed. They have compared and contrasted it to nonassertiveness, aggression, and manipulative behavior, and looked at how you learn to behave the way you behave and how the context or environment that you are in is likely to affect your assertiveness.
