"Sponsors of Literacy"

Having attended a catholic school from grades 1-12, I have to say that my literacy sponsors may to some seem bias. Having a roman catholic background ingrained into my abilities to read and write has created a certain stance that I have when analyzing readings and computing my own writing. These morals have been something I have grown up with, and since have been rooted into my mind; because of this I am subconsciously integrating what I have learned into my abilty to be a literate citizen. This particular sponsor gave me access to religious literacies Another sponsor that I would consider would be in a different genre of writing and reading, other then school/church, would be social networking cites, such as facebook and twitter. What I learned from these particular sponsors would never be used in my school literacies, but instead in my daily use of facebook, twitter, and text messaging. There is a different way of communication on these certain devices. It is a more lax way of reading and writing. The casual use of spelling, grammar, and punctuation has been created recently because of the increase in the ability of technological literacy. My generation in particular is much more tech literate then my parent’s generation. I think the social networking cites have taught me a certain type of social literacy. It may not be person-to-person social literacy, but a new type of social literacy involving technology.  

            I think the access I have from these sponsors is adequate because I have been able to present myself to the social and academic world as a literate person. If they had not done their job, I may be behind in the standings of literacy for someone of my age group and education level. As far as literacies being withheld from me that I wish to have; I would want to explore more into the scientific world. Being brought up by a catholic sponsor they tend to not to expand on the scientific facts, for example evolution. This is something I would have liked to been more educated about and more literate towards.