New: Literacy in Composition Studies, Spring 2025
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We are delighted to announce the publication of the spring 2025 issue of Literacy in Composition Studies, now live at www.licsjournal.org. This issue features the following pieces:
“‘Kids Don’t Come with Instruction Manuals’: A Mother Writing to Learn across Her Lifespan” by Anna D’Orazio
“Suppression on Paper, Suffering in Real Life: How Language Ideology in Nationalistic Policies Shaped the Literacy Experiences of Thai Chinese in Thailand” by Nattaporn Luangpipat
“Modernity and Rhetorics of Reform: The State Language Debate in Bangladesh (the East Pakistan) and the Proposal for Shahaj Bangla” by Shakil Rabbi
Book Review – “Revisiting Multiliteracy: Contemporary (Re)Forms of Multiliteracy Pedagogy” by Dani English
Book Review – “Mentorship/Methodology: Reflections, Praxis, Futures edited by Leigh Gruwell and Charles N. Lesh” by Jessi Thomsen
Book Review – “Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer edited by Kara Poe Alexander, Matthew Davis, Lillian W. Mina, and Ryan P. Shepherd” by Tiffany Kinney
Book Review – “What it Means to Be Literate: A Disability Materiality Approach to Literacy After Aphasia by Elisabeth L. Miller” by Esther M. Gabay
LiCS is an open-access online scholarly journal--please share this timely issue with your colleagues and networks. We encourage readers to submit essays to our symposium section that take up or respond to any of the conversational threads raised in the issue. We welcome queries at licsj...@gmail.com.
We hope you enjoy the read!
Professor of English Language & Literatures
San Francisco State University
tara...@sfsu.edu