• Deborah Brandt is a professor of English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There is couple of literacy books and scholarly research articles, which were written by her. One of them is “Sponsors of Literacy”. There is some data, which is collected in Literacy American Lives.
• Brandt opposes that people will not become literate by themselves. Instead of that, people, institutions and circumstances sponsor literacy. Moreover, it people actually acquires literacy.
• The word “sponsor”, we may think it as suggesting support or assistance. However, Brandt also discusses more than those aspect of literacy sponsor. She points out that literacy sponsor are not always altruistic, and they may have their …show more content…
It sponsored almost every person in feudal Europe and population around the world. These large-scale literacy sponsors influence our literacy.
• Even your literacies are unique, but there are also some common things with others.
Beginning of essay (332‐334)
• In United States, there are suitable atmosphere for young people become print shops apprentices in antebellum America. These flavored for literacy and political speak to develop, since there are editor is the printer at that time. This continues until steam press was invented.
• As the print jobs were not done by young apprentice anymore, the workers became low-paid mechanic. The Industrial Revolution benefited the dynamic sources of literacy writing and literacy learning.
• The popularity of steam-powered penny press had ended to a specific form of literacy sponsorship and decrease in literate potential.
• There are literacy looms, which became one of the best chances to earn profit and competitive advantage in 20th century. It can be used in consumer desire, integrating corporate markets and the deployment of …show more content…
For instance, we enhance our literate potentials by theorized, researched, debated, managed and critiqued. The economic force can change into motivators, determinants, barriers, contexts and touchstones for our literacy.
• Sponsors are not physical reminder. Literacy learning needs permit, assistance, coercion and sanction.
Sponsorship (335‐36)
• “Sponsor” can be different in people minds, such as supervisors, editors and older relatives.
• Usually the sponsors are richer, more knowledgeable and more protective people. They will give out their resources to the sponsored people in order to protect their own interest by trading.
• From different example (335), we can see that literacy can earn interest and benefit for sponsors. This is because the sponsor can control the content of reading and writing for sponsored. For instance there are restriction for specific type of reading in church and school, in order to achieve their goal.
• Author uses land to compare with literacy, and they are valued resource for producing profit.
Sponsorship and Access (336‐39)
• More poor people with have less insistent and less politically secured to their literacy