Sponsors of Literacy

Before you read: Having newspapers, articles on politics, world news, libraries, and the support system of going to college. Those who give the reasons as to why someone is a good reader are typically adults or well known authorities figures in the community. The reasons a person is usually a good reader is because of the content or if it is well written about the topic at hand depending on the audience as well.

Summary: In her article "Sponsors of Literacy", Deborah Brandt attempts to show the reader that people do not just become literate and she also explains what exactly helps educate people to be literate. She argues that professors are the ones who educate us and help us absorb the knowledge to become a literate individual.

QD: People who are listed under the category as a "literacy sponsor" would be; older relatives, priests, supervisors, military officers, editors, and influential authors. They are usually powerful figures who are rich, more knowledgeable, and contain relationships with those who follow them. They give credit and resources but also benefit to their success as well.

AE: I've never head any books banned in my library at school. They were supportive to all sorts of reads and understood that they are pieces of literature and are needed to be appreciated in that sense. There has never been particular books or authors that was ever put up on a higher account to others. The teachers would discuss what they liked and thought that we would enjoy them.

Opinion: This article wasn't all too bad in the text of how we learn to be literate. It was an extremely long text so it took me a while to read it because I wasn't that into it. I wasn't much for what the literary sponsors were, but it did make me reflect on how I came to be educated today. Everything has an influence on how we think about everything so I really liked reading it and thinking about all the different influences in our lives.