Deborah Brandt

The Rise of Writing

Redefining Mass Literacy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781107090316
• ISBN-10: 1107090318
• Artikelnr.: 41478781

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.