We’ll use Perusall to annotate and read together.
Claire: Good Morning
Hello everyone, my name is Claire Cocchi. I’m from Vacaville, California which is only about two hours from Chico. In all honesty my background in English is a disaster, but to me this just makes everything a little bit more fun. Growing up I never read much and it was really forced upon me. Every year for Christmas I would get like four or five books and every year I would never touch them because at the time I was not interested at all. Eventually I got really into reading and was super disappointed when none of my teachers assigned books to read in high school. That’s why I am an English education major because I don’t want anyone to be as horribly unprepared for college as I was.
For me everything I read is on separate levels. Whether I am reading for school, pleasure, or out of necessity they are all different to me. Like most I wake up and go straight to my phone. First is always messages and emails, then fun social media, and then real life stuff like the news and I google what the weather’s going to be for the day. From there I would also put my reading into sub categories because I don’t consider reading a tweet actual reading, but now days many people don’t read books or at all so that is their form of reading. Being able to measure the literacy of someone is impossible because there is a level for everything that we read. When it comes to writing, in this day and age, it almost obsolete unless you are in school. The most I write outside of school is a text or email and my journal, but other than that it’s limited to return receipts at work.
The purpose for reading and writing is to understand. Everything that our eyes see and read is meant for us to understand. It could be a book, a newspaper, a sign, or even a clothing tag. The same goes for writing, nothing is meant to be gibberish. I write things to be clear when another picks it up, even if it’s just my grocery list. Reading and writing is all about comprehending.
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2 Replies to “Claire: Good Morning”
Hi Claire! We both are English Ed majors and also have class together in the morning :)
Just like you, the first thing I do in the morning is check my phone and “read” through social media and emails. I honestly had never considered these common actions to be a form of literacy but I guess my views are changing, and it sounds like yours are too.
It’s nice to meet you (digitally and literally).
:)
Hey claire, I see some of the things you say the same way, I do think there is separate levels of reading in the same way that there are different levels of conversation and, other forms of interaction, such as performance, entertainment, and even social media. I think what you said about the news and weather apps, about them being “real stuff” is intriguing because it is the daily interactions we have with an intelligent medium. It makes me think of where reading and writing will eventually go, Im not sure if your versed in alternative literature, or the waves of influence the internet, especially phone apps like twitter have had on where literary taste, but positive or negative, apps like twitter, and Facebook, and newspaper apps have become part of our daily routine, and not only that, its what people read, as you put it, it is a modern day literature I think, whatever alternatives that leads us to believe considering what we value. Thank you so much for your ideas!