Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public, and Working Lives

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The rise of New Literacy Studies and the shift from studying reading and writing as a technical process to examining situated literacies―what people do with literacy in particular social situations―has focused attention toward understanding the connections between reading and writing practices and the broader social goals and cultural practices these literacy practices help to shape. This collection brings together situated research studies of literacy across a range of specific contexts, covering everyday, educational, and workplace domains. Its contribution is to provide, through an empirical framework, a larger cumulative understanding of literacy across diverse contexts. Cover Title Copyright Contents Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Methodological Matters and the Invisibility of Literacy PART I Literacies in Private Lives 2 Researching Social Media Literacies as Emergent Practice: Changes in Twitter Use after Year Two of a Longitudinal Case Study 3 Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels 4 Seniors’ Uses of Literacy to Gain Bodily Control in Medical Encounters 5 Digital African American Language: A Corpus Analysis of Text Messages 6 Reconfiguring the “Patient” Identity: Transcontextual Writing Practices of a Person with Multiple Sclerosis 7 Physically Present and Digitally Active: Locating Ecologies of Writing on Social Networks PART II Literacies in Public (Academic) Lives 8 Academic Consequences of Performing for Friends in English Language Arts Classrooms: The Significance of Culture and Language 9 Stepping Out with the Fop: Literacies of Embodiment and Becoming in Youth Drama 10 English Language Literacy and the Prediction of Academic Success in and beyond the Pathway Program 11 Emotionally Exhausting: Investigating the Role of Emotion in Teacher-Response Practices PART III Literacies in Working Lives 12 First Encounters in Professional Cyberspace: Writers’ Exploration of LinkedIn 13 Literacy Practices in Lunch Pails: Invisible Literacies of the Dabbawalas 14 Enacting Professional Literate Practice: A Snapshot of One Graphic Designer’s Process 15 Delivering the News: Literacy and Collaborative Response Practices at Midwest Utility 16 Distributed Labor, Writing, and an Automotive Repair Shop 17 Conclusion: Research on Literacy in Practice: Domains, Maps, and Emerging Challenges Contributors Index