Not Really English
When you first start school, and begin to learn your A, B, C you are taught a certain way. Much like when you get older and begin to learn how grammar works. Or even longer when you learn proper formats and writing styles. Then again back to learning how to read. This time more complicated wrapped around books and articles. Through all these times you are taught a certain way. You are taught things that are necessary at the time. Your kindergarten teacher would not ask you to read "Of Mice and Men" but more likely ask you to read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". A literacy sponsor decides how you learn and what 's best to learn depending your situation. Deborah Brandt is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin. …show more content…
She defines those people as “any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it …show more content…
This arose a question for my teacher. “ What is the point of writing properly if good writing is original and from the author”. She explained to me that it wasn 't to learn the proper way of doing something it was more learning how to see details. Throughout the year I had been doing the smallest of things to make a paper look good. I added small words that described something more than what it was. Through the essays and paperwork, I had adapted a skill that taught me how to notice details. I had adapted the skills that were proper. But also learned how to tell what an author is saying through context or the emotion of the text. As the year passed I wrote essays and research papers and with each one details were easily memorized. I became a literate differently than just reading. She taught me the values of speech and how something could have so much more context if you reread it with different
When you first start school, and begin to learn your A, B, C you are taught a certain way. Much like when you get older and begin to learn how grammar works. Or even longer when you learn proper formats and writing styles. Then again back to learning how to read. This time more complicated wrapped around books and articles. Through all these times you are taught a certain way. You are taught things that are necessary at the time. Your kindergarten teacher would not ask you to read "Of Mice and Men" but more likely ask you to read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". A literacy sponsor decides how you learn and what 's best to learn depending your situation. Deborah Brandt is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin. …show more content…
She defines those people as “any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it …show more content…
This arose a question for my teacher. “ What is the point of writing properly if good writing is original and from the author”. She explained to me that it wasn 't to learn the proper way of doing something it was more learning how to see details. Throughout the year I had been doing the smallest of things to make a paper look good. I added small words that described something more than what it was. Through the essays and paperwork, I had adapted a skill that taught me how to notice details. I had adapted the skills that were proper. But also learned how to tell what an author is saying through context or the emotion of the text. As the year passed I wrote essays and research papers and with each one details were easily memorized. I became a literate differently than just reading. She taught me the values of speech and how something could have so much more context if you reread it with different