I’ve been using this article, and the articles posted in the forum in response to it, in my Eng 12s this term.  I’m sharing it here because it reminds me of the work the CRC is doing on reconceptualizing the broad social purpose(s) of Eng 24.

This article sparked quite a flurry of response on various composition listservs when it was published last week.  To my eye, Teller expresses many commonsense, commonplace opinions based on several presumptions about how literacy skills are acquired, what they mean, and how we’d like them to function in our society. […]