The Relationship Established Between Literacy And Schooling

Compare and contrast Daniel Keller’s “Chasing Literacy” : Reading and Writing in an Era of Acceleration with David Barton’s “Introduction to Literacy”. Remember, when you compare two items you identify similarities; when you contrast things, you delineate how those items are different from one another. This assignment is inviting you to make both moves: Compare and Contrast.

The successful comparison and contrast paper will do the following…

• Meet the minimum requirements stated above.
• Convincingly compare and contrast two texts from our class. One must be Keller’s “Chasing Literacy.” The other must come from a previously assigned reading in this class.
• Adhere to MLA guidelines with respect to referencing and citing quoted and paraphrased material.
• Employ academic discourse with a particular focus on clarity of expression, continuity among ideas, and strong linkage between sentences.
• After comparing and contrasting two texts, conclude by focusing in on a profound “similarity despite difference or difference despite similarity.”

You might consider comparing and contrasting the following topics for this short paper:

• explicit definitions of literacy
• implicit characterizations of literacy
• intended audience of each text, including how audience might shape content of each text
• evidence to support claims
• historical moment
• metaphors used to describe literacy
• relationship established between literacy and schooling
• relationship proposed among literacy, learning, schooling
• references/characterizations of technology