Like any teenager, I found myself to be in a troublesome time during a few weeks in high school. I found myself to feel completely alone even though I was not a loner. Eventually, the lingering feeling of emptiness soon passed over and I became fine again. Afterwards, I wondered why I had felt alone during this time if I was socializing and interacting with others in school and at home. I came to terms that I did not feel as one whole person but as someone with multiple personalities and quirks. Ironically, it was also during this time of emptiness and loneliness, I realized I had multiple groups of friends, each with different customs and characteristics. I soon considered myself as a “socially flexible person” or someone who could conform
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If anything, it slowly became a gift as now I am able to communicate with different types of people who have unique personalities and styles. As I moved on from high school and headed to my first English college course, I soon learned the terms for these new practices and styles towards certain people or communities as literacy practices. A connection was made as I learned I had plenty of literacy practices for my multiple discourse communities. When asked how I use different literacy practices within my discourse communities, I aimed to talk about the groups who I interact with most and had a distinct style with such as friends, family, and the academic community.
As stated earlier, I made multiple friend groups in my life, each with their own literacy practices. The best examples of literacy practices I have noticed using with my friends is the group I am most comfortable and closest to. My closest friends are a tight group of people who I care dearly about and befriended them mainly in secondary school. The literacy practice that defines us is the humor we use, specifically memes and inside jokes. Memes, which are ideas or behaviors that are passed through people within a culture, help to further explain typically our hardships or feelings we are currently in, …show more content…
When writing essays, I write with a thesaurus on the side to change up the elementary or common words that are used too often such as “big”, “very”, or “pretty.” Of course, I do not try to change every word and use the most complex word I find as I still need to let my audience understand what I am trying to communicate. In comparison to my other discourse communities I have talked about, I do not use the words I find in the thesaurus while typing essays in my texts or conversations with my parents. It becomes odd now as I find myself confident in submitting a written essay but not confident enough to raise my hand and answer a short answer question during class. Back in middle school and bits of high school, I was usually quiet and always tried to avoid being called upon to answer questions. This was because I felt as though I was going to give a wrong answer and feel ashamed, partly also due to my anxiety. As I am getting older, I try to answer the question if I am picked on and give out whatever is first in my head, but I still avoid getting picked as I feel unsure how to answer. Within the writing of Ann E. Green in My Uncle’s Guns, she perfectly explains this uncertainty of giving the right response by asking, “How am I supposed to know which details are important to
If anything, it slowly became a gift as now I am able to communicate with different types of people who have unique personalities and styles. As I moved on from high school and headed to my first English college course, I soon learned the terms for these new practices and styles towards certain people or communities as literacy practices. A connection was made as I learned I had plenty of literacy practices for my multiple discourse communities. When asked how I use different literacy practices within my discourse communities, I aimed to talk about the groups who I interact with most and had a distinct style with such as friends, family, and the academic community.
As stated earlier, I made multiple friend groups in my life, each with their own literacy practices. The best examples of literacy practices I have noticed using with my friends is the group I am most comfortable and closest to. My closest friends are a tight group of people who I care dearly about and befriended them mainly in secondary school. The literacy practice that defines us is the humor we use, specifically memes and inside jokes. Memes, which are ideas or behaviors that are passed through people within a culture, help to further explain typically our hardships or feelings we are currently in, …show more content…
When writing essays, I write with a thesaurus on the side to change up the elementary or common words that are used too often such as “big”, “very”, or “pretty.” Of course, I do not try to change every word and use the most complex word I find as I still need to let my audience understand what I am trying to communicate. In comparison to my other discourse communities I have talked about, I do not use the words I find in the thesaurus while typing essays in my texts or conversations with my parents. It becomes odd now as I find myself confident in submitting a written essay but not confident enough to raise my hand and answer a short answer question during class. Back in middle school and bits of high school, I was usually quiet and always tried to avoid being called upon to answer questions. This was because I felt as though I was going to give a wrong answer and feel ashamed, partly also due to my anxiety. As I am getting older, I try to answer the question if I am picked on and give out whatever is first in my head, but I still avoid getting picked as I feel unsure how to answer. Within the writing of Ann E. Green in My Uncle’s Guns, she perfectly explains this uncertainty of giving the right response by asking, “How am I supposed to know which details are important to