We’ll use Perusall to annotate and read together.
Blog 1
Hello! My name is Lauren Wilson. I’ve been at Chico State for four years now, so technically I’m a senior. I wont be graduating until next year because I wanted to find a minor in something completely different than English, just in case. I was born in Paradise. Most of my free time is spent doing something involving music, family and/or fun. I hate homework…. And I hate talking about myself, so I think that’s enough of that!
There are endless reasons I read and write, but reading seems to have the one basic purpose of gathering information about something, while writing seems to be about informing. Szweds article had some interesting ideas, but I don’t think there was much new info in it. It was surprising to read the standard definition of literacy because I have never looked it up before. I liked his idea about teaching literacy according to the environment a student lives in, but I also think its important to teach about other environments because we live in a highly mobile culture.
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Lauren, thanks for posting. I don’t think Szwed is saying there is one standard definition of literacy…but perhaps our culture thinks there is. I wonder about the purposes for reading and writing you highlight–gathering and informing–I wonder if we’d agree on this even in just our small class. I sometimes write to figure out what I think, other times to make some arguments, sometimes to keep track of my life, sometimes to inform. Would be an interesting question to pose to the class.