What literacy means to me

I would simply define literacy as the ability to read or write, or use these abilities as language. For someone my age and who is going through college, I think literacy is really important and is really put to the test during these years. Countless essays, papers, critical analyses, comprehension, and all those boring books. If we are not very literate, we wouldn’t be here. Literacy has definitely changed though. It used to only be books, journals, etc. but has evolved into a technological way of reading, and writing is now typing. I think that today’s English courses should have a mix of both paper and paperless. Old and new traditions. It is good to still have experience and knowledge of academic and scholarly writing because it will always be reliable, as oppsed to online blogs. However, with technology growing at a rapid pace, it is beneficial for our generation to keep moving forward with it. Personally, I like to have the best of both worlds. Although it’s sometimes extremely boring reading something like Hamlet because I’m forced to for a particular class, it’s not to say I don’t enjoy reading a good book once in awhile. At the same time I spend hours every day on my computer because it allows you to have a new kind of language and sharing of information. It is definitely more exciting too.