MA Reading List
Language & Literacy
2015-2017
Exemplary Text
Gee, James Paul. Literacy and Education. New York: Routledge, 2015. Print.
Secondary Readings
Barton, David. “Talking about Literacy.” An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language.
Oxford UK: Blackwell, 1994. 10-32. Print.
Brandt, Deborah. “When Everybody Writes.” The Rise of Writing. Cambridge UK: Cambridge
UP, 2015. 135-158. Print.
Brown, John Seely, Allan Collins, and Paul Dugid. “Situated Cognition and the Culture of
Learning.” Educational Researcher 18 (1989): 32-42.
Elbow, Peter. “How Our Culture of Proper Literacy Tries to Exclude Speech.” Vernacular
Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
343-359. Print.
Hirsch, E. D. “Literacy and Cultural Literacy.” Cultural Literacy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1987. 1-32. Print.
Janks, Hilary. “Turning to Literacy.” Literacy and Power. New York: Routledge, 2010. 1-20.
Print.
Lee, Carol. “A Culturally Based Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching African American High
School Students Skills in Literary Interpretation.” Reading Research Quarterly 30.4
(1995): 608-630.
Lu, Min-Zhan. “Composition’s Word Work: Deliberating How to Do Language.” Composition
Studies in the New Millenium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future. Eds. Lynn Z.
Bloom, Donald A. Diaker, and Edward M. White. Carbondale, IL: SIU Press, 2003. 193207. Print.
National Council of Teachers of English. “Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies.” NCTE.
Nov. 2005. Web. 3 March 2015.
Rumsey, Susanne Kesler. “Heritage Literacy: Adoption, Adaptation, and Alienation of
Multimodal Literacy Tools.” College Composition and Communication 62.1 (2010): 10026. Print.