Although my ideas have grown much this semester, specifically, my take on literacy and its application, I cannot ignore the obvious reference to literacy that everyone makes reading and writing. During my journey to expound on literacy and apply its broader meaning to something in my life, I had to first realize how I first considered literacy and how it first applied to me before I could grow from that. The natural progression, then, was to explore that within my literacy autobiography. Through my autobiography I attempt to illustrate how I first interacted with literacy and how that grew into a desire of mine to always have an audience. I began with an audience in my Aunt, and I ve continued to seek an audience in my exploration and application of literacy.
Literacy is a funny thing.
Even as you consider the word, 'literacy' and think about its meaning, you begin to think of it as standing for something larger than itself. In other words, you become literate to literacy. During my time in English 102, I challenged myself to expand my horizons and train of thought and really force my thoughts and ideas to prove themselves. For, what I was told on that day was that I was going to get an opportunity to challenge my own ideas, put them up against others', and come away with a totally new perspective. I did that.