The Elements of Literacy
by Lindquist, Julie; Seitz, DavidEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-11-14
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary
This rhetoric begins with the question "What is Literacy?" and invites the reader to think and write about literacy as a field of study. The study of how people become literate, the role of literacy in society, and what forms literacy takes is important in many disciplines such as English, Rhetoric, Education, Sociology, and Anthropology. In The Elements of Literacy, students are specifically asked to consider five aspects or "sites" of literacy -- the mind (cognitive studies), culture (doing ethnographic research), class (the effects of social class on literacy practices), the workplace, and digital/multimodal literacies. As part of the Elements Series, this brief rhetoric offers substantial value at an affordable price.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| How Does Literacy Mean? | |
| Literacy Then, Literacy Now: Changing Meanings of Literacy | |
| Sites of Literacy: How This Book is Organized | |
| Activities and Projects | |
| For Further Reading 2 | |
| Literacy and Mind | |
| Kids These Days: Literacy and the End of Dialogue | |
| Letters, Thought, and Civilization | |
| Literacy and the "Great Divide"Literacy, Literacies, and Schooling: The Case of the VaiProjects and Activities | |
| For Further Reading 3 | |
| Literacy and Culture | |
| Into the Field: Ethnographic Research on Literacy | |
| Literacy in Action: Understa | |
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