Contributions to the Literacy Debate

Works Cited

This is the collection of texts cited by authors
in the Fall 1995 CMU Argumentation 76-100 G.

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Buzbee, Sally Streff. "Schools salvage computers for needy counterparts." Press Enterprise. 19 October 1995. p33, 37.

Charney, Davida. "The Effect of Hypertext," "Literacy and Computers, The Complications of Teaching and Learning with Technology." Eds. Cynthia L. Selfe and Susan Hilligoss. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 238-263.

Chideya, Farai. "Don't believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation about African Americans." New York: Bantam, 1995.

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Goya, Susan. "The Secret of Japanese Education" Phi Delta Kappan October, 1993

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Harper, Judith A. "Where in the World is Lamar Alexander?" in Phi Delta Kappan 32 (1992): 762-763.

Hawk, Kim "A Coopertive Family Literacy Project," in Pennsylvania State Document. Harrisburg: 1993.

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Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. "Reading and Writing in Hypertext: Vertigo and Euphoria" Literacy and Computers The Complications of Teaching and Learning with Technology. Eds. Cynthia L. Selfe and Susan Hilligoss. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 238-263.

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Kinnaman, Daniel E. "Budgeting For Technology," in Technology and Learning. Februrary 1995, p 70.

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Larson, Jan. (1991). "An Assessment of the Computer Literacy and Computer Attitudes of Incoming First-Year Students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire." ERIC DOCUMENT #ED373728, 1-10.

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Limbaugh, Rush . See I Told You So. New York: Pocket Books, 1993.

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Ogbu, John U. "Adaptation to Minority Status and Impact on School Success." Theory Into Practice, 1992. pp. 287-293.

Ogbu, John U., Herbert D. Simons. "Cultural Models of School Achievement: A Quantitative Test of Ogbu's Theory. Cultural Models of Literacy: A Comparative Study. Project 12." 1994.

Ohmann, Richard. (1992). "How to read cultural literacy". Against the Current, (January/February), 27-30.

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Weisman, Steven R.. "How Do Japan's Students Do It? They Cram." The New York Times, April 27, 1992.

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