Literacy and Learning: Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society

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.

• Introduction: Writing at the Speed of Change ixThe Grawemeyer Award in Education: A Conversation with Deborah Brandt 11 Sponsors of Literacy 232 Literacy in American Lives: Living and Learning in a Sea of Change 473 Accumulating Literacy: Writing and Learning to Write in the Twentieth Century 674 Remembering Writing, Remembering Reading 915 Writing for a Living: Literacy and the Knowledge Economy 1176 The Status of Writing 1417 How Writing Is Remaking Reading 161Conclusion: An Excerpt from Literacy in American Lives 177Appendix: Interview Script 193Questions for Reflection 197Index 199Credit Lines 205The Author 207