Technological Literacy and the University: Concepts,Priorities,and Political Realities

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Golden Hilda H. , “Literacy” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Volume 9, Macmillan, 1957, pp. 413ff.

Quoted in Graff Harvey J. , The Literacy Myth. Academic Press, 1979,p. 3.

From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, translated, edited and introduction by Gerth H.H. and Mills C. Wright , Oxford University Press, 1958, pp. 138-139.

Edelman Jacob Murray , The Symbolic Uses of Politics. University of Illinois Press, 1964.

Dickson David , The New Politics of Science. Pantheon, 1984.

Mitchell Richard , Less than Words Can Say, pp. 156-157, Little Brown, 1979.

Remedial work is being undertaken at some universities and colleges to deal with this problem among science and engineering students. See, for example, “Science and Math Professors Are Assigning Writing Drills to Focus Students’ Thinking,” by McMillen Liz in The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 19, 1986, pp. 19-20. Purdue University has assigned a full-time staff member in this school of Chemical Engineering for similar purposes, to help not only students but faculty to write better.