Intro to Writing

Tag: Week 2

  • Literacy is Learning How to “Be”

    Juan Torres

    “Literacy” means something beyond knowing how to read. Depending on who you ask, it can mean the sum of your experience existing in society.

  • An Explanation of Literacy

    rabruni

    An explanation of literacy according to James Paul Gee. A literacy is more than the ability to read and write. Literacy involve discourses.

  • What is Literacy?

    flanagsy

    There are also other forms of literacy, with everyone having a special interest or certain topic they are more interested in than others.

  • The meaning of Literacy: Then and Now

    julienk

    The different meaning of the word literacy. What it used to mean in past years, versus its meaning today, according to James Paul Gee.

  • A book with different versions of literacy flowing out.

    Explaining Literacy

    Izzy

    “The swift change from face-to-face to virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has proven why digital literacy is important.”

  • The first left panel shows the sentence, "They're just drug dealers". The image on the first right panel show a tiny brain within a human skull. The second left panel shows the sentence, "Drug dealers are a specific part of a community". In the second right panel, there is a picture of a bigger brain with many lit-up neurons in it in a human skull. The third and final left panel shows the sentence, "Drug dealers are a part of a unique discourse community, and we can use literacy to define and assess how they have evolved within this era." The final third right panel shows a fully-illuminated brain in a human skull.

    Is Your Drug Dealer Literate?

    Jordan Johnson

    Literacies affect our everyday life. The complexity of literacy provides a lens that reshapes how you look at everyone – your local dispensary clerk.

  • Jigsaw puzzle with missing piece.

    Defining Literacy

    Jean Pedrika

    The concept that the word literacy can mean more than just the ability to read and write and the more complex meanings of literacy.

  • Literacy In Writing

    Michela Muscaritolo

    The is about understanding what literacy is when it comes to writing and what it actually means for us to understand the literacy and nuisances of writing.

  • Computer Literacy

    What Affects Literacy?

    Perry Krawiec

    A textbook definition of the word “literacy” is the ability to read or write. However, literacy is not limited to reading and writing text and words.