Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "America is Facing a Literacy Crisis" by Jacob Babb (@JacobSBabb), a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was written by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe).
Chapter keywords: first-year writing, knowledge transfer, literacy crisis, semiliterates
Jacob Babb is an associate professor of English at Indiana University Southeast. He has been teaching composition courses since 2004, including first-year and upper-level courses in rhetoric, argumentative writing, professional writing, and digital writing at multiple institutions. He has published articles and book chapters on epideictic rhetoric, writing program administration, and writing assessment. He is the associate editor of WPA: Writing Program Administration. His Twitter handle is @JacobSBabb.
The theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
The full book is edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe and was published for free by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.
