Literacy is so abstract word that none of us can define it accurately. As Sylvia Scribner mentioned in "Literacy In Three Metaphors", "Each of these efforts has identified important parameters of literacy, but none has yet won consensual agreement." It is hard indeed to give a absolute definition of this word, Sylvia told us something about the word by analysing it in three different ways.
Literacy has neither a static nor a universal essence, but it is a "many-meaninged thing". For individuals, literacy is a kind of skills they should obtain to grasp, explain and express. Just like a adaptation, we should use this skill to account the goals and settings of people's activities with written language. In my opinion, the literacy which we gained from our life is basic skill for us to survive in this world, you have to think and talk to make others know your feelings and ideas. That is the realistic significance for individuals.
There is also a relationship between literacy and group or community advancement. That is what the author talked about in "Literacy as Power". Community mobilized the members to use the literacy in order to take part in the social movements. In this way, all the community members will be connected together and achieve more goals for the unity.
Many kinds of literacies are used by people everyday. The author gave us a lot of opinions about the different literacies in the third part of the article. Even some rude words is a kind of literacy, but what we pursue should be the ones that are intelligent and polite also effective.
Literacy is a very important thing in our life. We should learn it and how to use it to help us live better in the society which is full of misunderstanding and controversy
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