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Why Literature Matters Dana Gioia Summary

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The article “ Why Literature Matters” is about how lack of reading can and will affect our future society. In the article it also talks about how lack of reading affects getting a job, going out to events, and having a more creative mind. The author did research and brings up facts and evidence, and he talks about how the future society will lose skills and be less productive. Dana Gioia uses facts from his research to tell us the readers what has happened in the past years due to lack of reading. From the research he did he said, “The most worrisome finding in 2002 study, however, is the declining percentage of Americans, especially young adults, reading literature.” The author is showing how in 2002 the lack of reading was already worrying
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