The Elements of Literacy

Authors

Julie LindquistFollow
David Seitz, Wright State University - Main CampusFollow

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Document Type

Book

Description

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.

Publication Date

2008

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Publisher

Longman

City

New York

Keywords

Literacy, Cognitive Studies, Ethnographic Research, Social Class, Workplace, Digital Literacies, Multimodal Literacies

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature

Repository Citation

Lindquist , J., & Seitz , D. (2008). The Elements of Literacy. New York, NY: Longman.