Annotated Bibliography

Brandt, Deborah. Sponsors of Literacy. College Composition and Communication 49.2 (1998): 165185. Print. In Sponsors of Literacy, Deborah Brandt argues that people don't just become literate on their own, instead they are sponsored by people or institutions that help form the way people learn to read and write. She has many interviews that I am going to use as examples in my article about how sponsors shaped their life. I also am going to use her article to prove my point that everyone needs to have some type of sponsor to become a successful reader/writer. X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Ed. Alex Haley. New York: Ballantine, 1965. Print In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X shares with us his motivations and his sponsors when it comes to learning how to read and write. Some of the sponsors he had were all of the books and the prison he was in. His motivation to read and write came from his fuel of being told he couldn't amount to anything by an eighth grade teacher. I am going to use this article as a main point in my paper and use his story of sponsors as a focal point in my paper.