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More About This Title Literacy and Learning: Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society
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THE AUTHOR
DEBORAH BRANDT is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former visiting scholar at the U.S. Department of Education. Her first book, Literacy as Involvement, won the National Council of Teachers of English David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English. Her most recent book, Literacy in American Lives, won the 2002 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modern Language Association and the Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. She was the recipient of the Grawemeyer Award in 2003.
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Introduction: Writing at the Speed of Change ix
The Grawemeyer Award in Education: A Conversation with Deborah Brandt 1
1 Sponsors of Literacy 23
2 Literacy in American Lives: Living and Learning in a Sea of Change 47
3 Accumulating Literacy: Writing and Learning to Write in the Twentieth Century 67
4 Remembering Writing, Remembering Reading 91
5 Writing for a Living: Literacy and the Knowledge Economy 117
6 The Status of Writing 141
7 How Writing Is Remaking Reading 161
Conclusion: An Excerpt from Literacy in American Lives 177
Appendix: Interview Script 193
Questions for Reflection 197
Index 199
Credit Lines 205
The Author 207
