Canagarajah – Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students

Canagarajah, Suresh.  Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. Chapter 1:  Understanding Critical Writing C. notes that “critical” in academic writing means developing an attitude toward the hidden components of text construction (1).  Criticality occurs when texts are situated in rich contexts and the practice of critical writing can open the self up to new orientations... Read More

CCR711 – Rose – Workplace Literacy

Rose, Mike. “At Last: Words in Action: Rethinking Workplace Literacy.” Research in the Teaching of English 38 1 (2003): 125-28. Print. Rose attempts to disrupt the traditional conceptions about how much knowledge is required to complete blue collar work in this piece.  Specifically, Rose focuses in on the use of numeracy and graphics to demonstrate that what some researchers have called “lower order mathematics” leads to “a rich... Read More

CCR711 – Mills – Multiliteracies

Mills, Kathy A. “Multiliteracies: Interrogating Competing Discourses.” Language &           Education: An International Journal 23 2 (2009): 103-16. Print. Mills argues that the diverse cultural and linguistic contexts of life in a transnational and sometimes digitized world have led to the development of “multiliteracies” or, as the New London Group defined it, the “new literacies and changing forms of meaning making”... Read More