I am your audience

When it comes to the persuasive media impress, I want to recommend a website to all you guys. (www.loe.org) It is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International. At beginning of reading it, to be frankly, I did not like it because my purpose was just to get something to write down. By this, the ISB ( the course is related biology) professor would give me the extra credit.

When I, however, know it more depth, I am into this website. Firstly, the comphemeon or some science reports discussed in the interview are truth. It means that they are persuasive. Because before they host and interviewer discuss the issues, the host will introduce the basic background of the interviewer, such as what interviewer's degree is, what he or she does and which institution comes from. Thus, we can figure out that their reports and points whether are correct by this basic information. For example, if a professor(PHD) who comes from MSU's agricultural institution giving a new report about new agricultural product, I think that I am willing to believe what she or he said. Because ,as most people knows, the agriculture institution of MSU is the one of the best agriculture institution over the world. It is very hard to acquire the PHD degree from MSU' agricultural institution.

The experience with this project

To: Franny Howes
From: Liu ruicheng
Date: 03/29/2009
WRA1004—006

This project is the most creative that I have ever made. There are four people in our group. We cooperated with each other very well. Firstly, we talked about our majors. Two of us have the same major. Then we made a list of requirements of our different majors. For example, my major is marketing. I am required to learn some case studies, the basic computer science, marketing management and data analysis. The next step was that we put individual list together and found the common points. We pointed out the different aspects. We tried to find the relationship between those different aspects and made them connect to each other. For example, one of our group members learns the Finance. He is required to learn the data analysis. He and I are connected by Internet literacy because we both use the Internet resources to analyze the data. Finally, we didn’t make a map until we knew the connection of each other’s literacy.

My role in our group was to find the connection of our different literacy. What I did was to find out the same or related aspects between us. If there were some same or related ones, it illustrated that our literacy was connected. Also I was responsible for printing our literacy map.

The Cooking Literacy

Currently, tons of people are tired of cooking since they spend more and more time on their jobs than ever before they did. On the other hand, as the development of the fast food, it is convenient and easier to cook for most people. However, I think it is not the real cooking if people just need to put food in microwave oven.

I learned how to cook from my mother when I was a child. There are many methods cooking, such as fry and steam. Firstly, my mother taught me how to use the season, and then she showed me the process of cooking. The cooking literacy is important for people because it, to some extent, illustrates the basic ability of independence. For example, I always cooked by myself five years ago because my parents spent lots of time on their new business. Since that time, my cooking skills had been improved rapidly.

Cooking is also a good way for me to enhance the relationship of my friends. I usually invite them to have dinner on the weekend. We always cook dinner together. Some people go to buy the materials. Others cook. We are good at trying to cook new style dishes even them taste awful. During the cooking, we talk about some interesting news or the plans of future. It is a chance for us to talk with others and reduce our pressure.

I do benefit from the cooking literacy is the time I plan to live off-campus. Tons of students who live off-campus complain cooking. They think that wastes their time cooking. Lots of my friends only eat twice a day. However, I regard the cooking as an interest. The feeling of cooking my favorite food makes me enjoyable. Thus, I don’t worry about it when I live off-campus.

Literacy 4 shopping online

So far, I have bought three things from Amazon which is a very famous online shopping website. This click style shopping is absolutely attractive to me because I would be tire of shopping when I spend two or more hours in a real store. You know, the girls like shopping and they seem never to be tired. The click shopping, however, changes my shopping style and makes me love shopping. I am willing to share my experience of shopping on Amazon, different kind of literacy related to the Internet.

I read the instruction of this website and learn the procedures of buying stuff. There are three steps to finish shopping. Firstly, registering an account is required. People should have an e-mail and all information should be true. Then, people find the goods listed in the website. If people already know what product they want to buy, they can click the category to shrink the scale. By this, we can find the products as quickly as possible. When we selected one, the next step is to order it. Consumers need to sign their exact address and credit account number. Amazon provides different shipping methods. Consumers can choose them according to their own schedules. When we finish all that, what we should do is wait and expect how wonderful the product is.

There are two reasons why I learn the on-line shopping literacy. First of all, I don't need go to the shopping mall if I want to buy something. I can shop at anytime because they sell products during the whole year. On the other hand, I save lots of money when I buy something online. For example, I bought an Hp all-in-one printer yesterday. The price of it was 99 dollars at Bestbuy. However, I bought it on Amazon, it cost me 70 dollars including a printer and a ten feet USB cable! Thus, this kind of literacy makes me buy something conveniently.

The Driving Literacy

I learned how to drive a car in China last summer. The process of getting a Chinese driver license is quite different from the American process. The most significant difference is that in the USA, the applicants are allowed to start driving the cars as soon as they finish their writing test. On contrast, in China, you are able to drive a car logically only when you pass all tests.

Driving literacy is important to modern people because it tells you how to obey the transportation laws. If people, however, don't obey it, there are disastrous consequences, such as, injury and death. So what is driving literacy in my mind? I think it should be composed of two parts.

The first section is that the transportation laws. The drivers must know the meaning of the different traffic signs, markers and symbols. For example, the first picture in the top shows you can't turn left. The second sign give a signal that pedestrian symbol. There is a writing test examining driver this kind of laws.

The second section requires that all of drivers must have capacity of driving in the real world, this means that they must pass the practice test. My father taught me how to move the car from one parking-slot to another and return to a parking slot. Then, when I knew some basic skills, I started driving on the road. During this time, I found that I was scared when a track was coming in front of me. I always thought that it would hit my car. When I learned how to drive, I felt the road was not as broad as I thought, especially in one-way road.
So far, I have driven a car safely based on those two indispensable requirements.

Now, I am considering learning how to drive in the USA. The first step is to learn the American driving literacy.

The Internet Literacy

The first time I started having access to the Internet was when the elementary school opened computer courses. During that time, I heard of Microsoft, windows98 and the Internet. I still remembered my teacher said that the internet was like a line that connected people who had access to it all over the world. The first thing I learned what the e-mail was. Through learning it, I registered an e-mail account. I can hand in homework, send the files to people and give the messages to friends by it. It is really a wonderful tool.

The internet is a vast ocean with unlimited resources. It is broad, and has no boundaries. Any of individual is like a boat which sails on the ocean. How do we know our destinations? The captain would say that a compass was an indispensable part for them. According to my experiences, the Internet literacy is like a compass when we surf the internet. It tells you what kind of information you need and how to explore the new things. For example, I benefited from the internet literacy when I prepared for the TOEFL. Initially, I didn’t know there were tremendous on-line resources. One day, one of my classmates told me of two website named www.xiaomaguohe.com and www.taisha.com

I spent three days searching through them. I found that their purpose was to provide kinds of free test-related resources. They were BBS which were both composed of four sections, such as Reading, Speaking, Listening and Writing. So you can find your problems and solve them specifically. Most of the users were students, this meant we can discuss our problems and get the latest news even though we didn't have the teachers. Listening and speaking sections are my weak parts, so I downloaded lots of listening and speaking materials. I practiced them every day. If I had problems, I would discuss with others on those BBS. Futunetely, My TOEFL scores were 83. I was so excited when I knew my grades. In order to thank people who helped me a lot, I decided to write a paper about my experience of testing TOEFL.

Stock Litericy

I like reading newspapers when I wait for the bus. It is not only a good way to kill time, but it also keeps e updated on the lasted news and some interesting stories. Through experience of reading newspapers for many years, I learned how to buy the stocks in the business section. I like to invest as a hobby.

For example, during the economic crisis, the stock markets collapsed disastrously. You could imagine that how many people were upset. In my opinion, however, the meaning of crisis is the combination of danger and opportunity. So, I decided to buy some stock during the economic crisis. Firstly, I roughly analyzed each stock and what its company did through my local daily newspaper. I focused on the real estate category of listed companies as most of people did. Then, I compared the price of each stock. I deleted some of them with a price higher than 7 Yuan since I should be careful. One day, I suddenly found a headline stating that the government had set up a package of economic stimuli. The main trend of this project is to improve infrastructure, such as high ways and bridges. When I read this news, I was thinking about how the prices of road and bridge construction shares would increase because of this policy. So, I collected the related data and news. Based on the data and reports, I was sure the price of this kind of share went up. So, I bought 1,000 shares of the Sichuang road and bridge company. The price of it was 5.7 Yuan per share. The result was that its price increased 1.4 Yuan per share; this meant that I earned 1400 Yuan.

Because this kind of literacy, it makes me think about the finance and analyzethe company. Also, I get lots of benefits, such as earning money and practical experience.

What the " Literacy " is ?

In my opinion, it basically represents people who can read, write, speak an listen. It is considerablely important skill to know our society, yet as author mentioned, literacy is not a neccessity, for peosonal survival.

Meanwhile, i think that if people can understand something and write something down . it can illustrate they have capacity of literacy.