Sentence examples for writing literacy from inspiring English sources

(See also writing: Literacy: the uses of writing).

When the ballots were counted and the blood had dried, North Carolina had an overtly white-supremacist government that quickly consolidated its power, writing literacy tests for voters into the constitution and largely keeping blacks out of office until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Universal scientific literacy, similar to universal reading and writing literacy, is the direction we must head if we are to be true to the promise of science.

Because less than 30 percent of the adult population were able to read and write, literacy was also a major area of concern.

In M.A.K. Halliday & J.R. Martin (Eds.), Writing science: Literacy and discursive power.

These practitioners developed their own constructs for "reading," "writing," and "literacy" as they administered and scored the tests.

Crusan et al. (2016), in a study of writing assessment literacy which considered the knowledge, beliefs, and practices of 702 writing teachers, found that a quarter of the teachers had little or no training to teach and assess writing.

In comparison the percentage of learners writing Mathematics Literacy increased from 46%to49%9% between the two years.

While no special requirements are needed to volunteer, other than an interest in writing and literacy, the caliber of volunteers is often impressive.

Rollston is also the author of the recent volume entitled Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel: Epigraphic Evidence from the Iron Age, a volume which received the prestigious "Frank Moore Cross Prize in Epigraphy" from the American Schools of Oriental Research.

The men were low-income former convicts who could not read or write with literacy.