Bibliography (Literacies)

Literacy as a Social Practice

Barton, D. Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language. Blackwell: Malden, MA. 2007.

Barton, D. "Literacy as a Social Practice." Writing in the Community. Eds. David Barton & Roz Ivanic. London: Sage, 1991. 1-13.

Literacy and Identity

Gee, James Paul. "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction." Journal of Education 171.1 (1989): 5-17.

Pare, Anthony. "Genre and Identity: Individuals, Institutions, and Ideology." The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre: Strategies for Stability and Change. Eds. Richard Coe, Lorelei Lingard, & Tatiana Teslenko. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. 57-72.

Wardle, Elizabeth. "Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces." Enculturation 5.2 (2004).

Ivanic, R. Writing and Identity: The Discoursal Construction of Identity in Academic Writing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 1998.

Literacy Narratives

Branch, Kirk. "In the Hallways of Literacy Narrative: Violence and the Power of Literacy." Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century. Eds. Brian Huot, Beth Stroble & Charles Bazerman. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2004. 15-38.

Corkery, Caleb. Literacy Narratives and Confidence Building in the Classroom." Journal of Basic Writing 24.1 (2005): 48-67.

Eldred, Janet Carey, and Peter Mortensen. “Reading Literacy Narratives.” College English 54 (1992): 512–39. (Not much help.)

Fox, Stephen L. "Memories of Play, Dreams of Success: Literacy Autobiographies of 101 Students." ED 348 681 (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 43rd, Cincinnati, OH, March 19-21, 1992). (Not helpful for my work with adults, but interesting for my WAW writing class)

Hallet, Mary. "She Toiled for a Living: Writing Lives and Identities of Older Female Students." Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education. Ed. Bronwyn T. Williams. Logan: Utah State UP, 2006. 77-91.

Launius, Christie. "Brains versus Brawn: Classed and Racialized Masculinity in Literacy Narratives by Rose, Rodriguez, Villanueva, and Gilyard." CCC 61:2 (Dec. 2009): W283-W309.

Poe Alexander, Kara. "Successes,Victims,and Prodigies: “Master” and“Little”Cultural Narratives in the Literacy Narrative Genre." CCC 62.4 (June 2011): 608-633.

Rose, Shirley K. "Reading Representative Anecdotes of Literacy Practice: Or 'See Dick and Jane Read and Write!'" Rhetoric Review 8.2 (Spring, 1990): 244-259. (about gender)

Soliday, Mary. "Translating Self and Difference Through Literacy Narratives." College English 56.5 (Sept 1994): 511-526. (TERRRIFIC--pedagogy)

Scott, J. Blake. "The Literacy Narrative as Production Pedagogy in the Composition Classroom." TETYC 24.2 (May 1997): 108-117. (TERRRIFIC--pedagogy)

Sohn, Katherine K. "Gettin' Above Their Raisin's: Content Analysis of Literacy Narratives." ED: 420 867 (Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 49th, Chicago, IL, April 1-4, 1998). (useful framework for organizing literacy narratives)

Academic Literacy

Geisler, Cheryl. Academic Literacy and the Nature of Expertise: Reading, Writing, and Knowing in Academic Philosophy. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994.

Johns, A. Text, Role, and Context: Developing Academic Literacies. New York: Cambridge UP, 1997.

MacDonald, Susan Peck. "Problem Definition in Academic Writing." College English 49.3 (March 1987): 315-331.

Penrose, Ann and Cheryl Geisler. "Reading and Writing Without Authority." College Composition and Communication 45.4 (Dec. 1994): 505-520.

Professional Literacy

Beaufort, A. "Writing in the Professions." Research on Composition: Multiple Perspectives on Two Decades of Change (Ed. Peter Smagorinsky). New York: Teachers College, 2006.

(see, in particular, "Socialization Processes for Writers and School-to-Work Transitions," p. 229-232,)

Bernhardt, Stephen. "Seeing the Text." CCC 37.1 (Feb. 1986): 66-78.

Karlsson, Anna-Malin. "Positioned by Reading and Writing: Literacy Practices, Roles, and Genres in Common Occupations." Written Communication 26.1 (Jan. 2009): 53-76.

Munger, Roger. "Evolution of the Emergency Medical Services Profession: A Case Study of EMS Run Reports." Technical Communication Quarterly 9.3 (Summer, 2000): 329-346.

Munger, Roger. "Emergency Medical Technician Run Reports: A Study of Genre, Practice, and Reflection." Business Communication Quarterly 62.2. (June 1999): 116-120.

Schryer, Catherine. "Records as Genre." Written Communication 10.2 (1993): 200-234.

Smith, Dorothy E. & Schryer, Catherine F. "On documentary society." In Bazerman, Charles (Ed.), Handbook of research in writing: History, society, school, individual, text. New York: Erlbaum 2007. 113-128

Wardle, Elizabeth. "Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces." Enculturation 5.2 (2004).

Academic to Professional and Professional To Academic Literacy

Adam, Christine. "What Do We Learn From the Readers? Factors in Determining Successful Transitions Between Academic and Workplace Writing." Transitions: Writing in Academic and Workplace Settings (Eds. Patrick Dias & Anthony Pare). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., 2000.

Beaufort, A. "Transferring Writing Knowledge to the Workplace, Are We On Track?" Expanding Literacies: English Teaching and the New Workplace. (Eds. Mary Sue Garay & Stephen A. Berhardt). Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. 179-199.

Beaufort, A. Writing in the Real World: Making the Transition from School to Work. New York: Teacher's College Press, 1999.

Devitt, Amy J. “Transferability and Genres.” The Locations of Composition. Eds. Christopher J. Keller & Christian R. Weisser. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2007. 215-227.

Dias, Patrick, Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway, Anthony Paré. Worlds Apart: Acting and Writing in Academic and Workplace Contexts. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999.

Doheny-Farina, S. (1989). A case study of one adult writing in academic and nonacademic discourse communities. In C.B. Matalene (Ed.), Worlds of writing: Teaching and learning in discourse communities of work (pp. 17-42). New York, Random House.

Freedman, Aviva and Christine Adam. “Learning to Write Professionally: ‘Situated Learning’ and the Transition from University to Professional Discourse.” Teaching Technical Communication: Critical Issues for the Classroom. Ed. James M. Dubinsky. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004. 310-336.

Gleason, Barbara. “Connected Literacies of Adult Writers: Workplace Ethnographies in College Composition.” Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century. Eds. Charles Bazerman, Brian Huot, Beth Stroble. NJ: Hampton Press, 2004. 39-56.

Ketter, Jean & Judy Hunter. "Creating a writer's identity on the boundaries of two communities of practice." Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives. Eds. Charles Bazerman & David R. Russell. Fort Collins, CO: WAC Clearinghouse, 2003. 307-329.

Woolever, Kristin R. "Coming to Terms with Different Standards of Excellence for Written Communication." Worlds of Writing: Teaching and Learning in Discourse Communities of Work. (Ed.) C.B. Matalene. New York: Random House. 1989. (pp. 17-42).

Silver, Marilyn. "Teaching Writing to Adult Learners: Using Job-Related Materials." Improving College and University Teaching 30.1 (1982): 33-37.

Literacy and Class

Launius, Christie. "Brains versus Brawn: Classed and Racialized Masculinity in Literacy Narratives by Rose, Rodriguez, Villanueva, and Gilyard." CCC 61:2 (Dec. 2009): W283-W309.

Dunbar-Odum, Donna. Defying the Odds: Class and the Pursuit of Higher Literacy. SUNY Press, 2007.

Literacy and Gender

Launius, Christie. "Brains versus Brawn: Classed and Racialized Masculinity in Literacy Narratives by Rose, Rodriguez, Villanueva, and Gilyard." CCC 61:2 (Dec. 2009): W283-W309.

Not Sure

Brandt, Deborah. Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers, Readers, and Texts. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1990. (P211 .B695 1990)

Brandt, Deborah. "Accumulating Literacy: Writing and Learning to Write in the Twentieth Century." College English 57.6 (October 1995): 649-68.

Brandt, Deborah. "Drafting U.S. Literacy." College English 66.5 (May 2004): 485-502.

Brandt, Deborah. "Sponsors of Literacy." College Composition and Communication 49.2 (May 1998): 165-185.

Brandt, Deborah, "Struggles for Perspective: A Commentary on 'One Story of Many to Be Told': Following Empirical Studies of College and Adult Writing Through 100 Years of NCTE Journals." Research in the Teaching of English 46.2 (Nov. 2011): 210-214.

Ethnographies of Literacy

Daniell, Beth. A Communion of Friendship: Literacy, Spiritual Practice, and Women in Recovery. Carbondale, IL: SIU Press, 2003.

Fingeret, Hanna Arlene & Cassandra Drennon. Literacy for Life: Adult Learners, New Practices. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. Print.

Merrifield, Juliet, Mary Beth Bingham, David Hemphill & Kathleen P. Bennett Demarrais. Life at the Margins: Literacy, Language, and Technology in Everyday Life. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. Print.

Sohn, Katherine Kelleher. Whistlin' and Crowin' Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices since College. SIU Press, 2006.

Histories and Analysis of Literacy

Goody, Jack. Introduction. Literacy in Traditional Societies. Ed. Jack Goody. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1968. (LC149.G6)

Graff, Harvey J. The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987. (LC149.G63 1987)

Graff, Harvey J. "The Nineteenth Century Origins of Our Times." Literacy: A Critical Source Book. Ed. Ellen Cushman, Eugene R. Kintgen, Barry M. Kroll, and Mike Rose. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's. 211-233.

Graff, Harvey J. “Literacy’s Myths and Legacies: Lessons from the History of Literacy, to the Question of Critical Literacy.” Difference, Silence, and Textual Practice: Studies in Critical Literacy. Ed. Peter Freebody, Sandy Muspratt, and Bronwyn Dwyer. Cresskill: Hampton, 2001. 1–29.

Resnick, Daniel P. and Lauren B. Resnick. "The Nature of Literacy: An Historical Exploration."Harvard Educational Review 47 (1977): 370-85. --not particularly useful (4/9)

Resnick, Daniel P. Literacy in Historical Perspective. (LC149.L499 1983)

Scribner, Sylvia. "Literacy in Three Metaphors." American Journal of Education 93.1 (Nov. 1984): 6-21. --on the difficulty of defining literacy (as adaptation, power, state of grace)

Varnum, Robin. From Crisis to Crisis: The Evolution Toward Higher Standards of Literacy in the United States. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 16.3 (Summer 1986): 145-165.

Histories of Literacy and Work

Greer, Jane. "No Smiling Madonna": Marian Wharton and the Struggle to Construct a Critical Pedagogy for the Working Class, 1914-1917." CCC 51.2 (Dec. 1999): 248-271.

Hollis, Karyn. "Liberating Voices: Autobiographical Writing at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921-1938." CCC 45.1 (Feb 1994): 31-60.