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Brendan Donohue
Prof. Cripss
English 123 D
6 March 2018
Signal Phrases & Embedded Quotations Revisions
- Signal Phrase and Traditional Quotation with Citation
Deborah Brandt emphasizes the importance of literacy in “Sponsors of Literacy”. “Literacy, like land, is a valued commodity in this economy, a key resource in gaining profit and edge. This value helps to explain, of course, the lengths people will go to to secure literacy for themselves or their children” (Brandt 5).
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Author Chris Sobral reflects on an early experience in his narrative by saying, “I always dreaded taking them [tests] because of the reading and writing sections…” (Sobral).
- Signal Phrase and Traditional Quotation with IMPROPER Citation
Brandt confirms this is her study of the history of literacy acquisition. “People’s literate skills have grown vulnerable to unprecedented turbulence in their economic value, as conditions, forms, and standards of literacy achievement seem to shift with almost every new generation of learners” (Brandt).
Brandt confirms this is her study of the history of literacy acquisition. “People’s literate skills have grown vulnerable to unprecedented turbulence in their economic value, as conditions, forms, and standards of literacy achievement seem to shift with almost every new generation of learners” (Brandt 6).
- Signal Phrase and Traditional Quotation with Citation
The importance of how one’s circumstances can impact their literacy acquisition can be seen in Lindzee Ridley’s “Fact: I Can’t Read”. “… I didn’t have time to learn anything else. Which leads me to not being taught how to read. Reading was for school and I was learning important life lessons on how to survive. I was a tomboy” (Ridley).
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The environment in which Lindzee was raised placed an emphasis on the priorities and interests of her family more than extensive academic pursuits. This resulted in her being highly experienced and educated in certain fields, while her reading and literacy developed at a lesser rate. Consequently her literacy abilities were lesser than her peers.
- Signal Phrase with Quotation and Bracket and Citation
This results in a individual being set on a life long trajectory with a negative relationship with literacy, and as previously stated, “[literacy] is a valued commodity” (Brandt).
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Alexander promotes a method in which students grow through introspective evaluation of literacy narratives. “Literacy narrative assignments prompt students to explore and reflect on how theri past experiences with language, literacy, and schooling, inform their perceptions of themselves…” (Alexander 609). Alexander breaks down literacy narratives into eight categories: Success, Hero, Child prodigy, Literacy winner, Victim, Outsider, Rebel, and other (616).
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Brandt describes literacy sponsors as “any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, or model [the acquisition of another’s literacy] (Brandt 2).
- Signal Phrase with Block Quote
The significance of the role that a literacy sponsor can have on an individual’s literacy acquisition, as proposed by Brandt, can be observed in Ridley’s “Fact: I Can’t Read”.
By high school I found that teacher. Finally. Halleluiah. His name was Daniel Ryder. Everyone calls him Ryder. He is the best dam English teacher you will ever find in high school. This will only work when and only if you get to know him and let him get to know you. I willingly let him in, hoping and praying he would be different. I just had a gut feeling. I was right, oh boy was I right.
