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	A New Literacy?

RayWatkins

9-2-2009 11:23 AM

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September 1, 2009
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9-2-2009 1:00 PM

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offers a different vision of contemporary literacy, one in which people are writing more, not less, and using the written world to socialize.

Plus, we're reading more as well.

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