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Archive for April, 2009


5 Literacy’s

1) When I first learned how to drive. How it was a big deal toward becoming more independent. 2) When I first started to learn how to read and write. 3) When I had to read novels in 4th grade and I hated it. 4) My literacy in music when I was in band. 5) […]

Ideal Reader

1) People ages 15 and a half and up would be the ideal audience because they have some experience with the driving situation or have friends that are starting to drive. It might help the teens from 15 and a half to 17 realize what a big responsibility driving really is and how alert one […]

2/11 HW

Ethos is the audience’s perception ofthe rhetor’scredibility. Google shows its credibility on the search page. Douglass tells the story of how he was taught to read and write. He is credible because he went through this experience first hand.

“Language, Culture, Material Reality, Identity” Article

What it means for literacy development in general, that language has been in someone else’s mouth before it’s been in ours, is that people best learn by imitation. As a baby our parents and others talk to us and around us constantly, then we start trying to imitate them by saying something, then something else, until we […]

4/24

I think blogs are a unique way of reflecting on our class work and progress. That being said I didn’t like all the class time wasted on blogs. They don’t help enough to the point where we should have to write them everyday, maybe once a week or even once a month. Once a week would be fine to touch base […]

4/22

Which option between 1 and 2 should I do? How might I demonstrate it? What are some things I could add to make this fill 2-3 pages? How well do I explain my literacy? Any additional comments?

4/20

The value of this activity is to help us take one of our literacy’s and show what we know about it. This will demonstrate not only our knowledge of this literacy but also it will reflect on what we’ve learned on literacy in class. This will also helop us out in the future by looking and […]

4/17

Final Project Proposal   Eng 207 Spring 2009 Options 1 & 2 Focus 1. For my final project I am going to focus on my Microsoft Office                    literacy because: I am recently enrolled in a class about this so the information is fresh in my head, so I am very literate on this subject […]

4/15

I first though literacy was all about the ability the comprehend what you read for academic purposes. It is much more than that. I now know that literacy deals with every text message and email received, driving instructions, music, and everything in between. My view on literacy has change drastically since the beginning of the […]

4/13

I am going to include what people should in include in their reflective introduction. Which is how I feel about each project and what I like and feel are the strong parts of each one. I like your idea Brittany, on how you have yours organized. I also want an organized welcome page that lets […]