Literacy in Practice

Patrick Thomas is Assistant Professor of English, University of Dayton, USA. Pamela Takayoshi is Professor of English, Kent State University, USA.

1. Introduction: Methodological Matters and the Invisibility of Literacy Patrick Thomas & Pamela Takayoshi Part 1: Literacies in Private Lives 2. Researching Social Media Literacies as Emergent Practice: Changes in Twitter Use after Year Two of a Longitudinal Case Study Stacey Pigg 3. Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels Stephanie Moody 4. Seniors’ Uses of Literacy to Gain Bodily Control in Medical Encounters Yvonne R. Teems 5. Digital African American Language: A Corpus Analysis of Text Messages Jennifer Cunningham 6. Reconfiguring the "Patient" Identity: Transcontextual Writing Practices of a Person with Multiple Sclerosis Patrick Thomas 7. Physically Present and Digitally Active: Locating Ecologies of Writing on Social Networks Amber M. Buck Part 2: Literacies in Public (Academic) Lives 8. Academic Consequences of Performing for Friends in ELA Classrooms: The Significance of Culture and Language Mary Beth Ressler & Mollie Blackburn 9. Stepping Out with the Fop: Literacies of Embodiment and Becoming in Youth Drama Treavor Bogard 10. English Language Literacy and the Prediction of Academic Success in and beyond the Pathway Program Jennifer E. Haan & Karyn E. Mallett 11. Emotionally Exhausting: Investigating the Role of Emotion in Teacher Response Practices Nicole Caswell Part 3: Literacies in Working Lives 12. First Encounters in Professional Cyberspace: Writers’ Explorations of LinkedIn Elizabeth Tomlinson 13. Literacy Practices in Lunch Pails: Invisible Literacies of The Dabbawalas Uma Krishnan 14. Enacting Professional Literate Practice: A Snapshot of One Graphic Designer’s Process Lindsay B. Steiner 15. Delivering the News: Literacy and Collaborative Response Practices at Midwest Utility Jillian Hill 16. Distributed Labor, Writing, and an Automotive Repair Shop Jeremy Cushman Conclusion: Research on Literacy in Practice: Domains, Maps, and Emerging Challenges Patricia Sullivan