Literacies Tree- Critical Reflection

Throughout the essay I was asking myself frequently, why had I never known where I get my personal dialect and interests from? After learning and developing an essay on my literacy, I now actually understand what my literacy is. I always thought a literacy was just how literate you are or what language you spoke but it’s so much more. Your literacy can tell your past and predict your future. Thinking about my literacies has also made me think about my ancestors and current family in a different light. I think about myself in more of a higher relation, instead of just a family member. Almost as if I did truly gain from them passing their literacies down. Even family members I have never even met or talked to I can see a clear cut relation to them and my gain from them. As well as understanding where my personal interests come from, as not so much personal interests anymore as I share them with many family members.

Also depending on the prompt selected you could research and learn different aspects of your literacy incorporating others’ views on literacy. A good example of this could be comparing your literacy to that of Young’s in his text in Writing about Writing. Like if you use a different literacy in your day-to-day life talking to your family and friends than that of in the classroom. At the same time, he argues that you should be able to use your literacy in your daily life as well as in a classroom setting without change. But I learned that I alter my literacy quite frequently when entering a classroom. Especially when going from the ratline into an academic building. Also, for example, in the past from talking to my friends in the parking lot them entering school. Overall, in this essay I learned a lot about my personal literacy as well about my families past and where we got our literacies from.

HR: None, Hunter Maul