Critical Literacy Analysis

Sam Dillon’s “ What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence” is a New York Times article talking about the inefficient written communication in the workplace, and how schools/classes are appearing to teach employees the correct way to email. In the article there is numerous examples of poorly worded emails coming from regular employees to the top chiefs themselves.The emails examples in the article

Professional handling of mails is vital within an organisation since it is widely used for transfer of equipment and material in the business. Improper handling of mails could result in loss of business / customers / suppliers and economic losses.

It’s extremely important that you clearly check the person you are planning on sending an email to, just in case they happen to not be the person who you thought it was.

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My discourse community, the Bartlett High School Band, has several ways of communicating. One of those ways of communicating is using the Remind messaging system. Mr. Dwight Dodd, the band director, uses this system to send messages including but not limited to the band schedule, where to report to for a band competition, and the most common is the entire email he sent that is usually an extremely long email. That brings up another way that we use to communicate which is by email. Mr. Dodd might “blow-up” our phones with text messages using Remind but we get emails daily from him. This is where he sends us the schedules and the messages that are to long to put in a text although he sometimes does it anyway. If you are on the email system with Mr. Dodd then you will know what is going on at all times. Another way that the band uses to communicate is through the Facebook group that was created by our own Bartlett Band

Before creating a piece of writing, a journalist must decide on the role they would need in order to present to a certain audience. In order to successfully get the message across, the speaker’s style must factor into the content of the speech. Different types of roles the program could have are warrior, protector, healer, master, leader, and teacher. To get a better understanding on what role to use in a piece of writing, the computer program could ask itself three questions: 1. How much does the audience know about the topic?, 2.Is there anything new to

Elder Hansen sends his weekly letters through email. He would have needed to know how to work a computer, and how to type on a keyboard. It is also important to be educated, so that sentences make sense to the readers. Elder Hansen also needed to know the email addresses of other people. One does not need to be a specialist to send a letter through email.

Communications may be given personally, by registered or certified mail, or by facsimile transmission. When Client agrees then communications may be delivered through email.

The email has been evaluated on its use of language and expression, tone and organisation.

In reference to this element, Lindemann differentiates the terms by describing the reader as the person that deciphers a message while the audience is mentioned to be the target of a writing piece. In addition, Lindemann includes a broader definition of audience with the input of authors Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford. In general, I agree with Ede and Lunsford on the importance of the relationship between readers and writers. It is crucial for a writer to know his/her target before putting in paper a rhetorical piece. As Lindemann mentions, most of the students write their papers considering their teacher as their only audience. Therefore, I believe it would be a good practice to start imagining a broader audience to persuade with our writing assignments to acquire the skill of targeting different audiences to become better

Third, is that email s an inefficient medium for in ambiguous, complex and novel situations”.

If the sender’s accent is not easily understood by the receiver then a written message may be more effective.

Teaching higher order thinking skills is not a recent need. It is apparent that students, at all levels of education, are lagging in problem-solving and thinking skills. Fragmentation of thinking skills, however, may be the result of critical thinking courses and texts. Every course, especially in content subjects, students should be taught to think logically, analyze and compare, question and evaluate.

Analysis of the audience is an important part of the presentation of a speech that precedes the selection of a topic. This process requires asking specific questions regarding the topic in order to understand the interests, knowledge, and attitudes of the audience towards the topic. As part of adopting strategies and methods to ensure effectiveness of communication, analyzing the audience is vital for audience identification. Moreover, this process enables the speaker to choose the appropriate means of communication that ensures that the message is delivered appropriately. Analyzing the audience is also a vital point in speech presentation because of its impact on the direction of the speech.

Critical pedagogy, influenced by Paulo Freire and Michael Apple, sees students become participants in their learning, where topics are relatable and relevant to their lives. Critical literacy refers to the use of text and other communication to challenge the rules governing the societal norms of everyday life (Luke, 2012, p.5). Asking students to interrogate a text and question the use of language, allows them to form a critical observation about what the author wants the readers to know, for example, when studying Australian First Contact, allowing students to draw conclusions about the treatment of Indigenous people from a text which glosses over the details, ensures students look at the topic from multiple angles and apply their sociocultural knowledge to the discussion. The introduction of multimodal tools into literacy teaching, acknowledges that a