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Young people are constantly bombarded with advertisements, social media post, movies, billboards, and they need the media literacy skills to help understand the messages that these types of media are sending. Once they are able to look at media this way it can lead to improvements in critical thinking skills, and overall improvement in literacy.

Steve Buentello

While this is true, such initiatives such as the national association for media literacy to provide educators with resources as well as training to improve the level of media literacy of the students. At a collegiate level, universities such as Temple University and the University of Rhode Island are working with K12 teachers to develop curriculum as well as conduct the research to uncover the value of media literacy on a students’ success.

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Teaching media literacy in today’s curriculum can be very benificial, just about every student uses the internet every day in some way shape or form

Steve Buentello

Being in the 21st century, a society where a majority of an individual’s life is centered around technology, including young individuals, it would only be logical for educators to adapt the new competencies created by a society where technology is a primary source for information as well as communication.

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Most young people this day in age get their information through a plethora of media and system technologies. It is through these mediums that schools should be trying to capitalize on to teach students literacy skills.

Steve Buentello

As a student, I believe this is true, one example is the way this class is conducted. The professor is able to provide students with a module such as the hasthag compaign, through which the student uses a medium such as tumblr to learn how to improve one’s own literacy skills.

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Critical freewriting asks writers to think more analytically about a topic or subject for writing

Steven Lessner and Collin Craig

When going through the prewriting process, not only is freewriting an effective approach towards generating ideas, but critical freewriting is an effective approach as well. As opposed to freewriting, during critical freewriting, one is encouraged to ask questions, respond to the questions, as well as engage in opposing views. Using reflection and inquiry, critical freewriting allows a writer to gain a better grasp on their topic, as well as develop multiple outlooks on a topic.

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Freewriting is an effective prewriting strategy that allows you to explore an idea without worrying about grammar errors or coherence. This form of writing is not about devel- oping a finished product or performing “good writing.”

Steven Lessner and Collin Craig

Often, when an individual begins the process of writing an essay or research paper, one finds themselves to in a state where their mental block,. To the writer, this may pose as an issue, especially when there’s a deadline in effect. To prevent this from hapenning, writers ‘use a prewriting technique known as freewriting. In the freewriting process, a person writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar, or topic. Through freewriting, one is able to increase their productivity, generate new ideas as well as creates a chain reaction of new thoughts.

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Reading with a purpose teaches you how to use creativity to generate multiple approaches to building arguments and making connections between ideas.

Steven Lessner and Collin Craig

In a students life, when faced with a reading assignment, one is inclined to read the work passively. Meaning, the student reads through the assignment, failing to re-read sections thus failing to identify key points in the text. While passive reading may prove as satisfactory for some, active reading provides a student with a more optimal way to succesfully completing a reading assignment. Characteristics of reading actively include: asking oneself questions to uncover the purpose and meaning of the text, frequently noting the main points in one’s own words or in writing, as well as making connections between the readings and themes discussed in class.

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Discourse communities have changing memberships;individuals enter as apprentices and leave by death or in other less involuntary ways. However, survival of the community depends on a reasonable raito between novices and experts.

John Swales

In a discourse community, such as the insurance industry, having a company such as an insurance brokerage, which contains people that range in competence not only adds a certain depth in the context of the staff of the insurance brokerage, but also provides room for potential growth in a sense that the individuals who obtain a higher competency can provide additional information that would provide of assistance towards the individuals of lower competency. Say, if a training program were set in place for the brokerage in which certain emplyees with higher qualifications were able to train employees with lower qualifications, so that they become more effective in the work place. For the employer of this insurance brokerage, this would prove volatile, as this would save the brokerage money in hiring individuals with a higher qualification due to the fact that there’s a program set in place that creates a cycle in which employees, over time receive the additional training to become more qualified as opposed to remaining complacent in competency.

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The secondary purpose of the information exchange will vary according to the common goals: to improve performance in a football squad or in an orchestra, to make money in a brokerage house, to grow better roses in a gardening club, or to dent the research in an academic department.

John Swales

While being in a discourse community, such as the insurance industry, it is vital to rely on effective communication practices, whether written or verbal, to build partnerships within a company as well effectively manage a company. While being apart of any discourse community, it is vital that an individual learn to communicate effectively amongst the other members of the community to ensure that the goal specific to the certain community is met accordingly.

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This specialization may involve using lexical items known to the wider speech communities in special and technical ways, as in information technology discourse communities, or using highly technical terminology as in medical communities.” -

John Swales

When becoming part of a discoure community, such as the insurance industry, it is important to beome familiarized with the terms specific to the industry. by doing so, not only will you become optimal in the industry itself, but you will prove your competence as well which will help increase your influence in the community. Whichever discourse you find yourself a part of, make sure to become familiar to the terms specific in respect to the other members of the community.

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Ultimately, it is when both a personal history and an informal institution are combined that the true origins of one’s literacy interests and practices are revealed and understood.

Historical and Institutional Literacy Sponsors: A Love Story by: Adrien Pitchman

combined with my influences from my father as well as the influences set upon me by the university that i attend, my interest to become a part of the insurance industry has been clarified

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Hence, personal history indirectly influences literacy and its practices through the vehicle of an informal institutional sponsor

Historical and Institutional Literacy Sponsors: A Love Story by: Adrien Pitchman

When I was younger, I as a child would always go with my father to work due to the fact that i had no one else who was able to take care of me. While I was with my father, I was able to see him conduct business meetings with his staff as well as presentations with prospective clients. looking back at the experience, I was indirectly influenced by my father to pursue a finance degree as well as choose to take such a career path as the insurance industry.

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Informal institutions, like a mother-son relationship, can be just as important, particularly in regards to literacy sponsorship.

Historical and Institutional Literacy Sponsors: A Love Story by: Adrien Pitchman

In my life, I have been blessed with a father whom of which has supported me in everything that I do as well as taught me some vital things in becoming successful in the insurance industry as well as the business realm. for an individual to become succesfull it is important that he/she also has a relationship with another individual whom of which will support them in whatever it is that they do as well as help them become succesfull in the fields that he/she desires to be in.

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As I have been attempting to argue, literacy as a resource becomes available to ordinary people largely through the mediations of more powerful sponsors.

The Sponsors of Literacy by: Deborah Brandt

In the Rio Grande Valley, Hispanics who do not have the means of receiving an education out of the region or out of state have an advantage of receiving an education, which compared to other institutions is relatively cheaper, which therefore makes it easier to access. Financial aid as well as student loans, make it easier than ever to receive an eduacation at a low cost. Such instituions include STC (South Texas College),UTRGV (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, as well as TSTC a technical college.

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Differences in performances are often attributed to family background (namely education and income of parents) or to particular norms and values operating within different ethnic groups or social classes.

The Sponsors of Literacy by: Deborah Brandt

Oe of the major issues affecting enrollment in college amongst Hispanics is the economic factor. According to a 2014 National Journal Poll, 66% of Hispanics who got a job or entered the military after graduating highschool expressed the need to help support their family as a reason for not enrolling in college.

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Poor people and those from low-caste racial groups have less consistent, less politically secured access to literacy sponsors -- especially to the ones that can grease their way to academic and economic success.

The Sponsors of Literacy by: Deborah Brandt

While this is true, despite the Rio Grande Valley being one of the poorest regions in the United States, the Hispanic community has an untapped resource through which young individuals who are poor can recieve credible mentorship that can make long lasting difference in their lives. If the Hispanic populous of the Uniersity of Texas Rio Grande Valley were to find it in themselves to reach out to the Hispanic populous of the RGV who do not have mentors in their life that lead them in the path towards getting an education.

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Literarian - noun. An educated or lettered person; one engaged in literary pursuits

While reading the essay “The Sponsors of Literacy”, the major issue that was brought to my attention was the correlation between the level in which an individual was able to achieve literacy and majority-race status. In the essay, Hispanics were depicted as being part of a low-caste racial group, thus having less consistent and politically-secured acess to literary sponsors. While this is true, consideration has to be taken that this essay was written in 1995, a time where, according to the Pew Research Center, in 1993 only 728,000 hispanics were in enrolled in college. Since then, that number has almost tripled since 2013 it was recorded that 2.2 million Hispanics were enrolled in college. Although conditions have become more favorable for the Hispanic population as far as receiving a higher form of education (Hispanics to date, are the largest minority group on U.S. college campuses), there are still some issues that hinder the minority group from pursuing an education. As a hispanic living in the Rio Grande Valley, an area where the matority of individuals are hispanics as well as being one of the poorest regions in the U.S., I have created this # Campaign to bring a sense of empowerment towards the hispanic community to recieve an education through quotes used in the essay “Sponsors of Literacy”.

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“There will be no textbook this semester. All your readings will be in a folder titled “Readings for class” on Blackboard.” I think it is rather convenient that there will be no text books for the class, given the fact that majority of the time, we as students are required to purchase them.

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