11/14 blog

I feel like since starting this class, my ideas about, and knowledge of, literacy have changed and expanded. The articles and essays we have read have made me think about the concept of literacy more than I ever had before. Before starting this class, I just thought of literacy as the ability to read and write. I have since learned several other definitions of literacy, one of which includes the ability to speak and act in a certain way, in addition to reading and writing. Reading the articles about bullshit in academic writing really interested me because I didn’t realize that other people felt the same way about academic writing that I do. As a future teacher, I will try to teach academic writing to my students so that they do not go on to higher education writing “bullshit” because they do not know what else to do. Reading about discourses was also helpful to me as a future teacher; especially learning about the differences between primary and secondary discourses, as well as dominant and non-dominant discourses. This class has allowed me to think more critically about my own writing, as well as the writing of others, and develop my knowledge about literacy and what it really means to be literate.