Literacy 10-17- Lucia Torres

Before this course the word literacy means to have the ability to read and write. Now that I have had the chance to experience the readings from the source English 201 I have come to the consensus that academic writing, speech, and the ability to read is what educators define as “proper literacy”, because not just any type of literacy is acceptable. Which is why I choose the quote "If academic writing is bullshit, then bullshit is what we teach” (Eubanks & Schaeffer 374), because this shows where exactly these reasoning’s are coming from. I also came to a different conclusion that literacy is not only something that is more than just reading and writing, but it’s getting students to make that ultimate understanding/ connection of what makes any piece of literature comprehensible. This is what I will call “making the connection” which is why I find the quote from Gere’s article most important; “A Help to Young Writers, a self guide published in 1836, found fault with the rapid subjects assigned by teachers and tendency with the schools to teach composition as though it bore no relationship to good conversation (Gere 81).” The importance from writing not only comes from deriving the abilities of how to read and write, but also to making proper connections to what the acceptable academics. Whether or not we want to accept the fact that “proper academics exist”, they do and as a dominant we have to push them, so as an entire society we can proper in a more common ground, even if it’s wrong.