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Chasing literacy: reading and writing in an age of acceleration

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dc.contributor.authorKeller, Daniel, author
dc.contributor.authorUtah State University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:48:03Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:48:03Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references and index.
dc.description.abstractArguing that composition should renew its interest in reading pedagogy and research, Chasing Literacy offers writing instructors and literacy scholars a framework for understanding and responding to the challenges posed by the proliferation of interactive and multimodal communication technologies in the twenty-first century. Employing case-study research of student reading practices, Keller explores reading-writing connections in new media contexts. He identifies a culture of acceleration--a gathering of social, educational, economic, and technological forces that reinforce the values of speed, efficiency, and change--and challenges educators to balance new faster literacies with traditional "slower" literacies. In addition, Keller details four significant features of contemporary literacy that emerged from his research: accumulation and curricular choices; literacy perceptions; speeds of rhetoric; and speeds of reading. Chasing Literacy outlines a new reading pedagogy that will help students gain versatile, dexterous approaches to both reading and writing and makes a significant contribution to this emerging area of interest in composition theory and practice.--Provided by publisher.
dc.description.tableofcontentsLocating reading in composition studies -- Perceptions of literacy -- Reading in a culture of acceleration -- Directing attention: multitasking, foraging, oscillating -- Reading-writing connections.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediumbooks
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/88152
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subject.lcshReading
dc.subject.lcshInformation technology
dc.subject.lcshLiteracy
dc.titleChasing literacy: reading and writing in an age of acceleration
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