- Brandt’s opening paragraph sketches a history of printmaking. At the end of the paragraph, she uses the term “literacy sponsorship.” Describe the reason Brandt sees printmaking as a site for literacy development. In addition, explain why Brandt finds a paradox in the rise of the penny press. The information you need is confined to the first paragraph of her article.
She sees it as printmaking as a site for literacy because of the amount of change the two things can bring to the world. The rise of the new allowed more things to be printed with less people causing the importance of literacy development to increase. She finds a Paradox when the steam powered press made print more accessible making printing more profitable it caused a end to a particular form of literacy sponsorship and a drop in the number of people that could actually be a literary sponsor.
- Brandt defines literacy sponsors as “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). This is a complicated or multidimensional understanding of the concept. Using examples from Brandt, Gee, or your own literacy narrative (written in ENG 122 and published in Rising Cairn), describe how sponsors can do at least two of these things. Be sure to explain why the evidence from your examples shows that sponsors do what you think your examples show.
Gee Is a literary sponsor because he gives his ideas of Discourse and enables people gain knowledge on literacy and what it really means to be a part of something. He also teaches new ideas and withhold vast amounts of literacy knowledge.
- “Literacy, like land, is a valued commodity in this economy, a key resource in gaining profit and edge” (Brandt 558). If literacy is so valued, why might so many people have such complicated relationships to reading and writing, perhaps two of the most important features of literacy?
Due to the fact that some people are not lucky enough to be born into societies that include the learning of reading and writing in their Primary Discourse. Literate nations have controlled most of the world’s economy over time.
- “Throughout their lives, affluent people from high-caste racial groups have multiple and redundant contacts with powerful literacy sponsors as a routine part of their economic and political privileges. Poor people and those from low-caste racial groups have less consistent, less politically secured access to literacy sponsors – especially to the ones that can grease their way to academic and economic success” (Brandt 559). How might Gee explain the differences between the affluent and the poor on literacy? Be sure to quote Gee in your explanation. It might be helpful to use Branch and Lopez (in Brandt) for details to aid your explanation.
Gee values would understand why less fortunate people that reading and writing was not incorporating into their primary Discourse. When It comes to the people that have learned to read and write and have been educated throughout their youth he can act as a literary sponsor and give off powerful ideas.
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