Literacy is a word that can have numerous definitions depending of course who you ask and in what context. Some people believe it is an unobtainable goal that people strive for to better themselves based on social class. Others feel literacy is a writer’s transformation from school to outside writing after critique and review. And then some think that literacy is just how well someone is able to bullshit their way through an essay.
It seems that my understanding of the definition would have to be how well a student is able to grasp basic writing concepts (i.e. grammar and sentence structure), their ability to learn and grow in composition, and a student’s ambition to write like an educated scholar along with being able to read and comprehend complicated meaningful essays. This is different from my first understanding of the word literacy from back before I begun this class. Before I thought literacy was being able to read and write coherent sentences, basically the literal definition.
Now considering the simple definition that I had of the term literacy pre this semester and the more complicated definition that I have now after reading several essays on the subject and I am sure that my definition will once again transform by the end of the semester and the closing of the class. Literacy does not have one simple definition; again it does matter considering the context in which the word is brought up in.
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