After seeing the title of this essay and ready “Sponsors of Literacy” by Deborah Brandt, I never really thought of the connection between these two ideas and how one seems to motivate the other, motivation being the main factor in many aspects of literacy or life for that matter. Motivation comes in many different forms as Brandt points out in her essay. Sponsors usually “sponsor” because of some sort of underlying investment that they have put into something that they are passionate about our have interest in. In this case, in this essay, it was literacy. She touches on the positive and negative aspects of sponsorships in literacy. I felt her purpose in this essay was to give us a look at the positive side sponsorship in literacy gives us. Sponsorship is the motivational factor that pushes literacy on and on and keeps learning and teaching literacy, past and present towards a positive and enlightened outcome.
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i feel that the sponsership when it comes to literacy is very much so only handed out to upper middle class kids. The idea of motivation is great but how do we motivate everyone. The importance of literacy sill needs to be made clear to every student
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