Description: Explores the daily lives of a group of inner city residents, focusing particularly upon their language use and other types of literate strategies used to gain resources, access to social institutions, and respect.
Brief description: Ellen Cushman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.
Review Quotes:
"This book illuminates the complex ways in which inner city residents who might easily be labeled as illiterate, in fact, have both linguistic and rhetorical strategies that are sophisticated and effective. It's a fine example of what I think of as action research." -- Andrea Lunsford, The Ohio State University