Framing: Through our years of schooling there have always been students who never enjoyed reading. Why is that? With the help with two scholarly texts, I aim to answer that question.
Credibility/Intro Sources: In Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction written by James Paul Gee, we explore what a Discourse is; “Discourses are ways of being in the world; they are forms of life which integrate words, acts, values, beliefs, attitudes, and social identities as well as gestures, glances, body positions, and clothes” (7). Using this text written by Gee, I will go into detail about how some students aren’t fully fluent in the Discourse of reading which is a contributing factor to why they don’t like reading. While reading Sponsors Of Literacy written by Deborah Brandt we learn about what a sponsor of literacy actually is. “Sponsors as I have come to think of them, are any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy – and gain advantage by it in some way” (556). Using this text written by Brandt, I will go into detail about how the people in student’s lives (sponsors) affect their feelings about reading or learning in general.
Perspective: The scholarly texts written by Gee and Brandt help give more meaning behind the key issue which is; why don’t students enjoy reading, while the Raising Cairn narratives I incorporate throughout this paper help explore and give examples of the reasoning behind why students don’t like reading.
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