Rise of Writing - Redefining Mass Literacy

Drawing on real-life interviews, Brandt explores what happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people's daily literate experience.

List of contents

Introduction: the rise of mass writing; 1. The status of writing; 2. Writing for the State; 3. Occupation: author/writing over reading in the literacy development of contemporary young adults; 4. When everybody writes; Conclusion: deep writing; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography.

About the author

Deborah Brandt is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Summary

What happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people's daily literate experience? Drawing on recent interviews with people who write every day, Brandt explores this major turn in the development of mass literacy and examines the serious challenges it poses for America's educational mission and civic health.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Brandt, Deborah (University of Wisconsin Brandt, Brandt Deborah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107090316
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09031-6
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Literature & literary studies, Communication Studies, United States of America, USA, Language acquisition