Academic Literacy
Academic literacy has a great impact over how a person expresses and presents themselves in a scholastic environment. The tools to effectively read, write and critically think are skills that not only help a person in the scholastic environment, but also in personal discovery. Through positive experiences with academic literacy, people do not only learn to improve their writing and other critical skills, but they also apply this toward learning about themselves and becoming a more confident person in everything they do. Setting a positive environment for students to engage in and become comfortable with their surroundings is an effective way to aid students. Teachers have a great impact on how students learn to apply their academic literacy. When the support is there, students know, and feel more free to apply themselves. A fellow student wrote about her teacher that “Without the positive experience I had in the beginning of my French career I don’t know that I would still be studying the language today.” (Hansen 1). The teacher helped the author gain a confidence and set a tone that is still with her today. Without my first grade teacher, Mrs. Dorothy Williams, I do not believe I would have the passion to re
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