Literacy Privilege
I need help with my strong response Essay for English Comp 1 class. I kinda get the concept but I’m mostly confused. I need a better explaination and an outline.
Description: Using the same article you summarized last week as your subject, write a Strong Response Essay of 900 words. Incorporate your summary (revised as needed).
TMy summary:My favorite response article is “Literacy Privilege” by Chandra. This article is about not judging or confronting someone on their ability to read and write. Chandra writes about her past life of being a grammar snob. She states that she started working for a program to help disadvantaged adults learn fundamental literacy skills. That’s when she stopped criticizing others grammar. She gives an example of someone posting online with terrible grammar, and writes about how she would have loved to correct the grammar and basically make fun of them, but things have changed.
The example is written by a person named Jonny. She writes about how she doesn’t know Jonny and she doesn’t know what his life was like. Not knowing if he was dyslexic, had a brain injury, or if he was from a third world country. She then breaks down why you shouldn’t put people down for literacy errors. Not knowing why their background or their life. Chandra talks about how thinking there’s only one way of doing English is flawed. She stated that only half of The United States is literate, that those numbers should be a national crisis. Chandra continues with a Literacy Privilege Checklist. This lists simple things that literate people can do in their everyday life. Reading street signs, acquiring a driver’s license, career freedom. She ends with her commitment to better engage people with different ways of expressing themselves.
Chandra. “Literacy Privilege: How I Learned to Check Mine Instead of Making Fun of People’s
Grammar on the Internet.” Painting the Grey Area, 26 Nov. 2012, paintingthegreyarea.
wordpress.com/2012/11/26/literacy-privilege/
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In this strong response essay, I will use Chandra’s Literacy Privilege article. In her article, she discusses her past judgmental behavior of criticizing persons that were not good at spelling or creating modifiers. She would literary correct grammatical errors in every literature she would come across. She knew that she was a nuisance, but this did not deter her from her activities. Ironically, she was hired to help disadvantaged adults to acquire basic literature skills. She states that this employment changed her perception of persons that were not good at spelling or creating modifiers………………………
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