We’ll use Perusall to annotate and read together.
Instructions for joining on the Assignments page.
Our course invites you to work with data collection and analysis, readings, and discussion around the field of literacy studies
Hello! Welcome to Introduction to Literacy Studies. This site is where you will find our syllabus, assignments, calendar, readings, etc. Almost all readings are available as links from the calendar. I will ask you to choose a book club text, but we can talk about that when we meet. For now, feel free to click …
Thank you for the amazing set of projects, talks, and reflective papers. In case you missed seeing some of the projects, here they are below. Hope you do yourself a favor, take a break from finals, and watch, listen, or read. Some stunning work here. You. Rule. Olivia’s Defend DACA Now site Richard Mata’s Hip …
Here’s our shared Google Doc for criteria
John Szwed’s “Ethnography of Literacy” (1980) poses an interesting take on the idea of literacy, suggesting that it may be a more flexible term than many think at first. He states, “Conventional thinking about reading and writing far too often uses a much-out-dated model of literacy…” (425). He means that we are excluding so many …
In our literacy studies class, we formed small groups to discuss John Szwed’s “Ethnography of Literacy” and UNESCO, Defining Literacy. While sharing as a class we discussed questions like: 1) What exactly is literacy? 2) How do you define reading and writing in a classroom? 3) What would a school define as successful or helpful …
Proud to announce that our book, which focuses on teaching writing in the sciences, is available from TCPress and Amazon.
You will also find supplemental materials, including detailed lesson plans, on our companion site also called Composing Science.
California State University, Chico
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Email for sharing Google Docs:
kjaxon@mail.csuchico.edu