Description:
This collection brings together situated research studies of literacy across a range of specific contexts, covering everyday, educational, and workplace domains.
Review Quotes:
With an exemplary mix of senior and junior scholars and of people from Education and Composition Studies, this book breathes new life into the New Literacy Studies. One of the best collections of work on sociocultural and experimentally-situated approaches to literacy to have appeared in a long while.
James Paul Gee
Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents' Professor
Arizona State University
"Throughout this collection, the reader sees the editors' point about the value of studying how people use literacy. These subjects are easy to visualize and bring to life how literacy practices impact the individual and how each individual's literacy choices contribute to the evolution of culture in the 21st century." - Laurie Shirley Esposito