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Introdcution to Literacies

Introdcution to Literacies. Agenda. Writing response YouTube video Literacy discussion Assigned reading discussion Literacy memoir introduction For next class. Writing Response. As a writer, what do you think of yourself? What do you excel at? What are your opportunities for growth?

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Introdcution to Literacies

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  1. Introdcution to Literacies

  2. Agenda • Writing response • YouTube video • Literacy discussion • Assigned reading discussion • Literacy memoir introduction • For next class

  3. Writing Response • As a writer, what do you think of yourself? • What do you excel at? • What are your opportunities for growth? • What role will writing play in your future?

  4. Good Morning! • http://www.jest.com/embed/5684/secret-girl-language-with-ashley-benson

  5. Twitter • Do you have your Twitter account? • For those of you I cannot find, did you tweet yet? • Access • Audience

  6. Tier 1 Writing • From the WRAC website: “each course explores that theme in relation to five major types of literacy: personal, cultural, disciplinary, multi-media, and literacies of revision.” • “We accomplish this by focusing on the analytic and generative possibilities of literacy that help you engage in rich inquiry processes and make effective decisions about creating and communicating new knowledge” (iii). • “First, literacy expectations in higher education move readers, writers and researchers away from literacy as an act of consumption and toward literacy as a generative process through which new understanding, ideas, solutions to problems, and motivations inspire participation. Second, literacy activities in higher education ask readers, writers and researchers to move beyond adaptation to what is already known and toward contributions that add to existing knowledge bases and improve on existing practices” (iv).

  7. Reading Ourselves and the World Around Us • Childhood memoires • Example: reading license plates, billboards • Product vs. process • How did you get to be “literate” in _____ • Significance • Not always just letters • Decipher and translate

  8. Mother Tongue • Power of language • How we speak when we’re in certain places • Audience, tone, purpose • Broken, limited, imperfect • Limitations • Effects of people’s perceptions of “limited” speakers • Tan’s example • Disproving assumptions

  9. Literacies • What is literacy? • Varying communities • Video • What is Literacy by definition? • Images associated with literacy • What does it mean to be illiterate? • Images associated with the “illiterate” • Power and Access • “Normal”—Reading and Writing

  10. Literacies Contd. • Types of Literacy: • What is not included?

  11. Activities • Talent Inventory • Pick a partner • Interview them • Ask them what talents/skills/literacies they have • What literacies are in this space:

  12. Literacy Memoir • For your first paper, you are assigned to write a personal narrative reflecting on the impact of the Internet on you and your life. This is a wide-open assignment, one that you could take in a number of different directions. For example, you may choose to write a series of linked-vignettes; you may focus on one particular aspect of the Internet and/or one particular aspect of your life. Regardless of what approach you choose, it is important that you use a great deal of specific examples and details to prove whatever claims you make about the impact of the internet on your life, how it’s shaped some particular aspect (or various aspects) of your life. Also, please include visuals in your text with proper labeling according to APA or MLA style.

  13. For Next Class • For Tuesday, 1/17 • Read Hearing Voices • Read The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl • Read pages 7-16 in The Little, Brown Compact Handbook (LBCH) • Complete Writing Response (WR) #1: project proposal • 1 page double-space, 12 pt font, 1” margins • Hard copy • Proper heading

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