Dipsiner1 Evan Dipsiner Leslie Wolcott ENC 1102 25 August 2012 Brandt: The Sponsors of Literary Summary Analysis

Deborah Brandt, Sponsors of Literacy. College 25 August 2012 Composition and Communcation, Vol. 49, No. 2 pp. 165-185. May, 1998. Throughout The Sponsors of Literacy by Deborah Brandt, Brandt demonstrates that Literary sponsorship is a brilliant industry which throughout history that even though there are focuses on meeting both the giver and the different sponsors, the recipients are all reaching recipient in the distribution of knowledge. The towards a similar goal. Dora Lopez was seeking article focuses on giving a variety of stories help in becoming bi-literate, Raymond Branch whether it was a sponsorship of a wealthy family focused on computer programming, and Yi Vong (Branch) or a poor family (Lopez). Even though simply learned from visual and auditory language the two were focused on different subjects, it was machines. Brandt uses research studies to support necessary that they received some sort of this claim, In a clerical study through the first sponsorship to reach their goals. half of the twentieth century Anderson (1986) estimated that secretaries might encounter up to 97 different genres of in the course of doing dictation or transcription. Furthermore, Brandt uses pathos to exemplify the importance of literacy sponsors. Brandt shows how Branch was of a wealthy family and had sponsors of his fathers company while Lopez's nearest resource was 70 miles away. Additionally, the use of imagery aides the reader to understand the importance of sponsorship. Like Little Leaguers who wear the logo of a local insurance agency on their uniforms, demonstrates that even though the insurance company doesn't indeed follow the baseball team to the games, it uses them as a means of advertisement.