The reflection of Scribner and Lunsford’s article on the new literacy

The reflection of Scribner and Lunsford’s article on the new literacy

In the article of  “literacy of three metaphors”, the author mentions that literacy is defined by adaptation, power and a state of grace. The ideas the author talks about literacy are: fundamental needs improvements and accumulations.

 At the beginning of this article, Scribner emphasis that the definition of literacy is not easy to find because it relates a lot of things, such as the relationship between individuals and society: the author said that individuals in society without writing systems do no become literacy.

In the first part, Scribner mentions that literacy is adaptation for people about their daily use. People can use written symbols to adapt their fundamental, social and personal needs. In my opinion, I agree with the author’ s opinion, I think literacy has a near relationship with our daily needs. If we cannot recognize the basic information, we cannot use literacy to improve ourselves.

The second part the author talks about literacy is power. There are two parts that also relate with literacy. Both of economy and educations need literacy to make a strong power for human development. I think the author want to point out that we could get experience or facts through books, and these useful information help the society become strong.

In the third metaphor, the author talks about that literacy is a state of grace. The literacy based on accumulating knowledge. People can accumulate their efforts through reading books, and people can know assumption about the society. Making improvements on the cultures and getting important experiences.

In my opinion, I think literacy is really helpful about self-enhancing and society improvements. We learn from literacy about basic knowledge to adopt lives and we improve ourselves by learning more knowledge through literacy.

The second article is “ Our Semi-Literate Youth? Not So Fast ”, Andrea A. Lunsford talks about the writing through students. A lot of students can text, email and chat by using slang, but they also can use formal language to write academic essay for their studies. There are some different errors than before, but students still learn through daily life and they could recognize to use the suitable words about everything.

The connections between those two articles are that literacy based on our lives and also improve us a lot. I believe that we will use literacy more widely in the future to make a great improvement.