We’ll use Perusall to annotate and read together.
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Our course invites you to work with data collection and analysis, readings, and discussion around the field of literacy studies
In Hamilton’s article, she talked a lot about newspaper photographs and how they add color to a story. I’ve worked with the Orion in the past so I agree with this notion from my personal experiences. In each story that writers are assigned with each week, they are also paired with a photographer who will complete the …
In the Hamilton article, I found the juxtaposition of Literacy as Accessory and Literacy as Defiance very interesting. Both of the explanations said that these two uses for literacy were about identity, about declaring something about oneself. The part that intrigued me and caught my attention was how, while they had that in common, it manifested …
A popular reddit post that hit the front page last week reminded me of the Hamilton article in a couple of ways. The post was titled “I gave this homeless man, Paul, my Kindle after learning that he’d been reading the same book over and over. He hasn’t put it down for …
I am not sure really what to say about this piece. It is an obvious example of literacy in the environment (from the essay), in that it is physically in the environment, and telling people to be wary of the environment around them. On the other hand, this is a unique piece of literacy, and …
The part of the Hamilton paper that I found most interesting was the distinction between a “literacy event” and a “literacy practice.” I feel that the distinction is an important one to make, but that it wasn’t made very clearly in the paper. It took me a while to truly understand that a literacy event …
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