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The Status of
Writing How Equipped Are Our Social, Cultural, and Political Institutions for Sustaining a Nation of Writers? Deborah Brandt, Award Winning Author and Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. ECTL - Coe 307 (new location) Lunch will be provided |
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| Brandt will examine how the growing importance of writing in economic and social life in the United States challenges ideas about literacy that developed as part of a reading literacy. Drawing on the observations of everyday Americans about the writing they do at work at beyond, she demonstrates how writing threatens to undermine the moral order that has conditioned mass literacy. The U.S. was founded as a nation for readers. But as writing comes to rival reading as a focus of mass literate experience, we can ask: How equipped are our social, cultural, and political institutions for sustaining a nation of writers? |
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Learn more about Deborah Brandt |
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Article: Accumulating Literacy (pdf) |
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The Status of
Writing is co-sponsored by the Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning, LeaRN, and the Wyoming School-University Partnership. |
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