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Time to Write: The Influence of Time and Culture on Learning to Write . Second Edition. Albany: suny Press, 2015. 432 pp. In Time to Write: The Influence of Time and Culture on Learning to Write , John Sylvester Lofty (Emeritus Professor of English Education at the University of New Hampshire) returns to the Maine fishing community that comprised the subject of his 1992 ethnographic study. This new edition presents the original and current findings together in a two-“act” compilation. The exigence for both studies is a question posed by Lofty’s students during his short time as an island English teacher: “Why do we need to learn how to write?” (196). Act i explores this question by addressing how island time culture influences students’ learning and writing in school. Act ii revisits the question twenty-five years later within a new context of technological advancements, island transformations, and other changes. Time to Write shows us that school-based time values and instructional methods often do not harmoniously exist with students’ own conceptions of time and personal literacy practices. Lofty’s intimate glimpses into the lives of island students at home, in school, and at work thus offer not only a temporally
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Published: Sep 27, 2016
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