Reading Cultural Literacy
In this part of Decoding Cultural Literacy, you’ll be able to:
- Analyze everyday media by applying the rhetorical appeals
- Utilize steps to help break down everyday media
- Learn how to effectively annotate to help compile data for evidence
- Articulate the message of a piece of media through the analysis tools outlined
- Build authorial credibility through scholarly and professional research
Analyzing Media for Cultural Literacy
The term reading is used in this chapter for examining cultural literacy. As in the figurative phrase read the room, reading cultural literacy is vital to decoding cultural literacy, because you want to ensure all of your thoughts are well formulated to situate your voice in the writing process. Reading cultural literacy is a rhetorical act of assessing a piece of media at face value and then critically analyzing its meaning as part of a specific discourse community. After reading, decoding is the final step to synthesize the message of that piece of media in relation to your own cultural literacy and the message’s cultural literacy.
