Some of Your Literacy Definitions

One of the great things about the blog approach to composition class is that we can read each other's work and learn from each other's efforts.  To that end, this post is a round up of some of your literacy definitions that I thought everybody could benefit from reading.  Enjoy . . .

KC Fry's definition looks at how individualized literacies exist among each of the groups to which we belong, from the biggest to the smallest.  Luke Tinkham makes an important note about what literacy means in each new environment we encounter, and Alexandra Garritano notices the cultural implications of literacy.  Katie Stevens notes how literacy is not stable: it increases in each of us over the course of our lives.  Amber Lovitt works out an idea of literacy as a package deal.  Joe Archer breaks literacy into categories and suggests that it is an adaptive organism.  Emily Modezjewski makes a crucial connection between literacy and manipulation.  Becca Cordray notices the need for simplicity and power in literate communication.  Michelle Concannon notes the kind of literacy present in the language of experts talking to one another.  Alli Grissom notes that literacy takes time and effort.  And Graham Martin points out that literacy is sort of the super size combo meal of everything we know.