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Literacy Heroines is about twelve amazing women who lived and worked in the period 1880-1930 who used their literacy abilities to address major issues in the country in those years, including some we still face today: racism, sexism, voting rights, educational and economic inequality, health disparities and others. They used their exemplary literacy skills to teach, to bring issues to light, to right wrongs, to publish books, articles, pamphle...

This collection offers support for instructors who are concerned about students' critical literacy abilities. Attending to critical reading to help students navigate fake news, as well as other forms of disinformation and misinformation, is the job of instructors across all disciplines, but is especially important for college English instructors because students' reading problems play out in many and varied ways in students' writing. The volum...

This book argues that the psycholinguistic nature of literacy is universal and seeks to recouperate late nineteenth and early twentieth century techniques for addressing it. After defining the key terms of this study, the book goes onto survey various types of literacy education in the United States. First, it examples various religious organization and their methods for supporting literacy, focusing on the main religious groups in the United ...

This collection of reports and studies focuses on the long-term growth of literacy skills. The contributors explore the ways that formal education supports the growth of literacy and also show that literacy can be encouraged outside of formal educational settings.

This collection of reports and studies focuses on the long-term growth of literacy skills. The contributors explore the ways that formal education supports the growth of literacy and also show that literacy can be encouraged outside of formal educational settings.

REFERENCE GUIDES TO RHETORIC & COMPOSITION, Series Editors, Charles Bazerman, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff | RECONNECTING READING AND WRITING explores the ways in which reading can and should have a strong role in the teaching of writing in college. RECONNECTING READING AND WRITING draws on broad perspectives from history and international work to show how and why reading should be reunited with writing in college and high school classroom...

REFERENCE GUIDES TO RHETORIC & COMPOSITION, Series Editors, Charles Bazerman, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff | RECONNECTING READING AND WRITING explores the ways in which reading can and should have a strong role in the teaching of writing in college. RECONNECTING READING AND WRITING draws on broad perspectives from history and international work to show how and why reading should be reunited with writing in college and high school classroom...

The book reviews research in linguistics, psychology, reading and writing, and brings this work to bear on the problem of readable writing. The research in these four areas supports the claim that two factors in text are crucial to its readable quality: psycholinguistic redundancy and cohesion. The results of three empirical studies and a case study to explore this claim further are then reported. The findings have important theoretical and pr...

Classrooms filled with glassy-eyed students provide an experiential base for Alice S. Horning's new com-prehensive theory about basic writers. Horning explores the theory of writing acquisi-tion in detail. Her examination of spoken and writ-ten language and redundancy give a theoretical base to her argument that academic discourse is a sepa-rate linguistic system characterized by particular psycholinguistic features. She proposes that basic wr...