By Shannon Carter
Demanding situations an self sustaining version of literacy guide in prefer of 1 that acknowledges and builds on scholars' facility in navigating different rhetorical contexts.
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I have always had problems with tests because I either go blank when the teacher passes out the test or I second-guess myself. There is always something that holds me back from doing good. Even when I have the subject down and make A’s or B’s on graded assignments, I have trouble with the test. (WA2) In her second essay poignantly entitled “Writing’s Hold on Me,” Gretna describes a similar relationship with standardized testing. As she explains, “There are times when you are at a loss of words or have no idea what to write.
As Rose explains, “remedial writing courses” frequently perpetuate the problem Sondra Perl’s study uncovers, not only by offering writing activities that, in fact, often force these writers to abbreviate their writing processes but also by asking them to complete isolated tasks on simple topics, requiring few, if any, writing practices likely to be relevant to writing experiences beyond the remedial course itself. When we understand basic writing as an activity system according to the theoretical framework offered by these early basic writing scholars, literacy becomes a matter of applying to a given writing project a more appropriate logic (according to Shaughnessy) or procedure (according to Perl and Rose).
I’m “literate” in a number of spheres—as a writing teacher, as a viewer of Law and Order, as a reader of mystery novels, as a feminist—yet I am equally “illiterate” in a number of other social spaces—as a player of video games, a viewer of football, a reader of comic books, a mechanic, an accountant. I am not alone in this. We are all highly literate in some spheres at the same time we are equally illiterate in other spheres. Our “literate levels” in any given area may be based on aptitude, but they are much more empathically shaped by our experiences, interests, and current needs (see Street, Gee, and Brandt).