The Lure of Literacy

The Lure of Literacy
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9781438454962
ISBN-13 : 1438454961
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Download or read book The Lure of Literacy written by Michael Harker and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...readers of LiCS will find a strong argument for how understandings of literacy are fundamental to the work that compositionists do, making this book useful not only to those doing similar work but also to be shared with colleagues who have less familiarity with literacy studies. The Lure of Literacy presents a model of how theories of literacy can be applied to the debates that beset compositionists again and again, offering a way out of their unproductive cycles." — Literacy in Composition The Lure of Literacy promises to transcend the stale and unproductive debate on freshman composition that has gripped English studies for more than a century. It is the first book to chart the origin of the discussion from the early twentieth century to the advent of the New Literacy Studies. Michael Harker recontextualizes proposals to abolish compulsory composition and reimagines pedagogical conditions in English studies in order to present a different model for first-year writing. This new model for compulsory composition programs focuses on students' attitudes about composition and interrogates the very idea of literacy itself.


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