Literacy

I consider literacy to be somewhat the same thing educated… To be educated is to be able to comprehend a language, to read it, speak it, write it and understand it. I think that literacy kind of goes along with that…to be literate, to be able to read and write and understand something. I don’t think that if a person isn’t very good at writing poetry they are not literate. I think literacy is an extremely broad term and can apply to a number of people with different educational backgrounds. I don’t think that one can become literate just by reading books all the time, or writing constantly. I believe literacy comes from a combination of reading, writing, creativity, comprehensive thoughts, etc. I don’t think that one particular type of writing should be considered the basis of learning how to write, but I don’t think that everyone should be forced to write in specific ways… that sounds kind of complicated. Let me rephrase that…um I don’t think that a research paper should be the only form of writing that students are allowed to write in but I also don’t think that students should be required to write haikus and all that…some people just aren’t good at that kind of stuff and it’s just a lot of limitation. So no, i dont think we should have to learn all different types of writing like we did in high school (and probably sucked at them). I liked the crot assignment because it allowed us to write in a way that we could express ourselves comically, seriously, poetically, etc and write in forms that we knew we could write in. The crots were basically stories, and what are college students best at? telling outrageous stories.