Why Literacy Is Important
Why Literacy is Important for Your Future The internet is a very big thing and some people may think that if you type a random questions it will have answers for everything but it doesn’t it might only know a quarter of what happens in the world. When you have a school project you will more than likely look up the stuff on the internet than read a book about it or reading an article. Sometimes when classes do book reports or reports on people you can type it and send it to your teacher and you don’t have to read it in front of your class. When you’re in college you have to write a lot and the iGeneration is used to typing and sometimes you have to write in cursive but we never actually learned how to when we were in elementary and we should
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When you have a scientific job and when you work with animals you have to know how to pronounce their scientific name and when you’re on the internet you can’t really learn how to pronounce the scientific name of the animal and the ability to listen is a part of literacy so you can have help from other people to pronounce it because they speak and a computer can’t. My grandpa is a GenX and he has a flip phone and all he knows what do with it is to call so he when he needs to look something up he either asks one of us to look it up or he looks it up in a book. If I need to do a report I look it up but seventy percent of the time when I look something up there is like ten different answers so most of the time I got something on the report wrong. I think by mastering your literacy skills you would understand a lot more in life and when you got to college you will also understand more and it’ll be easier to do assignments and you would more than likely get an A or B. My goal is to master my literacy skills so I can get my PhD and become a marine
When you have a scientific job and when you work with animals you have to know how to pronounce their scientific name and when you’re on the internet you can’t really learn how to pronounce the scientific name of the animal and the ability to listen is a part of literacy so you can have help from other people to pronounce it because they speak and a computer can’t. My grandpa is a GenX and he has a flip phone and all he knows what do with it is to call so he when he needs to look something up he either asks one of us to look it up or he looks it up in a book. If I need to do a report I look it up but seventy percent of the time when I look something up there is like ten different answers so most of the time I got something on the report wrong. I think by mastering your literacy skills you would understand a lot more in life and when you got to college you will also understand more and it’ll be easier to do assignments and you would more than likely get an A or B. My goal is to master my literacy skills so I can get my PhD and become a marine