Academic Literacy      Academic literacy is probably thought as something only the perfect student could posses. Some of us believe that there are those students that can get good grades and not work hard and than there are the rest of us who struggle or have to work very hard to get the good grades. The secret is in academic literacy. The concept could incase many different aspects of literacy and some we would never associate with literacy in any way.

     Some of the different aspects of literacy include Technical Literacy, Cultural Literacy, Teleliteracy, Academic Language, Economic Literacy, and Scientific Literacy.  In order to comprehend certain programs at your university one must be computer literate as well.

    We could define academic literacy as having a good core knowledge as described by E.D Hirsch in his book "Cultural literacy: What every American Needs to Know" He spoke of Universal literacy being what is needed, or a well developed base of shared knowledge. In college it is assumed you have a basic understanding of the three "Rs"
 

     Part of the concept of academic literacy also includes the changing "Technical Literacy" aspect of academic literacy. With computers being applied to new areas daily it is imperative that as an academic student we strive to keep up with the new technologies being offered. As a student requirements of how our work is completed almost always includes a computer in some way. Weather it would include internet searches, work being e-mailed to instructors or that the work be typed a certain way, a basic knowledge of computers would be required.

     As a student being able to focus your time to do the best on your education is a learned skill or an art nowadays. It is important that we find out about the services that are available at your school. We would also have to get to the library to find out was available to us and how to obtain what one would need.

     As one would start out in the beginning of our continued education we would want to assess ourselves on a regular basis to be sure of our performance at all times. It is important that we know who we are, and what we want, and to be honest with our self-evaluations. Getting help with study habits or tutoring will get us back on the right track.
 

For the person who gets good grades all the time, they probably have been practicing these things from the time they were in high school. Luckily for us, if we begin to focus our attention on our study habits and practice it will begin to get easier and we would be on our way to academic literacy.
 

  All of the above items tend to mold the perfect student. The perfect student can only be attained from a combonation of all of the above. He or she must be well versed in academic literacy. Of course the fact of the matter is since we can only speculate what academic Literacy really is, we will never have that perfect student. However, we still must try.
 

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