The Importance of Literacy

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The Importance of Literacy I would consider myself a literate person because I am able to communicate with others, through conversation, reading other people’s articles or books, or writing my own, for example this paper, and actually understand the information that either I put in front of myself or someone else has presented to me. Although there are many different levels and types of literacy, such as literacies in Math, Science, Technology, English, Medicine, etc., I have abilities that correlate to many of these categories. I am able to understand and even partake in activities with others because we both contain understanding in a certain type of literacy. For example, I can read something about programming a computer, but I am not going to understand majority of it simply because I am not skilled in that area of literacy. In many different areas that I have become to grasp an understanding of, such as Anatomy and Physiology or Exercise Science, I have the ability to share my ideas and opinions of what is going on because I understand the content of either one of these sciences. Although I consider myself to be literate in many fields, I would also consider myself to be illiterate in some fields of knowledge. There are some things that I just cannot understand or would simply just not care enough about to become literate in that area. It may even be that I would like to obtain literacy on a certain topic, but I haven’t gotten around to finding a means to educate myself. For me, personally, one of these topics would be politics. Although it is an important topic to many, I just don’t have much care for it, which leads to my inability to have any opinions on politics because I do not know much about it. Therefore, many would consider me to lack literacy in politics. My friend Billy from high school is probably the most illiterate person that I know. In a
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