Deborah Brandt

In The Rise of Writing, author and professor Deborah Brandt posits that writing, rather than reading, is the dominant form of literacy activity today. Many workers in our "knowledge economy" spend much of their workday creating documents and emails. Examples of professions in which employees write a lot include police officer, social worker, and legislative assistant. Often, these writers learn on the job; the types of writing they learned in school don't serve them well in the real world. Brandt concludes that high school and college curricula should focus less on reading and literary analysis, and more on "workaday writing." It's a fair point. For graduate students and other academics only.… (altro)