Sponsors of Literacy By: Deborah Brandt
Summary: In this article by Brandt she states that literacy back in the 1900’s was steam pressed. Steam pressing made it tough for teachers to teach the curriculum. Print jobs were also a low profit job with a lot of multi skilled workers. After the Industrial Revolution printing became a lot easier. Literacy in the 20th century grew a lot because more people were learning how to write. Literacy in writing played a huge role in the print industry because more people started to write efficiently. In the last quarter of the 20th century literacy took a huge rise by debate and research. This article connects to Elbow’s by talking about how literacy has grown over the years just like writing has. Brandt’s article reminded me on how wet can all grow in literacy and writing just like Elbow’s article. “People’s literacy skills have grown sharply more central to everyday information and goods as well as to the pursuit to education, civil rights, and status.” (Brandt, 167) This quote is new to me because I didn’t think that literacy would play this big of a role in our lives.