Post by account_disabled on Dec 27, 2023 1:38:24 GMT -5
I often wonder what level of education those who contact me privately, even some clients, or those who write on social media have. I ask myself this because I don't understand how people can write so badly - so much so that it makes me think that many haven't even attended primary school - and how they can't understand simple passages of text. I want to immediately give the example of my page dedicated to guidelines for writing guest posts and specifically focus attention on this simple, clear, unequivocal passage: Guest posts I edited that piece 3 or 4 times, because I received proposals from complete strangers, from marketing agencies looking for the blessed link, even from foreigners (and I mean those who wrote in English).
In the end I condensed everything into that simple, clear, unambiguous sentence. It worked? No, not at all. The requests continue and will continue to arrive, rest assured. And I'm calm too, having Special Data now put my soul at peace, as they say. Either they stop at the title of the page (Guest post – Guidelines for writing articles on the blog) and start writing to me like crazy (you obey the Link god!) or they really don't understand the text. I lean towards the second hypothesis. If you're wondering how this is possible – and obviously I've wondered that too – I've finally found the answer. It's called functional illiteracy . Functional illiteracy: an evil of the 21st century? What is functional illiteracy ? The functional illiterate is not a true illiterate, because he has learned to read and write, and has therefore successfully attended compulsory schools.
Indeed, in the majority of cases he even has a diploma and, strangely enough, he is often also a graduate. He is functionally illiterate, that is, he does not know how to use his reading and writing skills, skills that he learned during elementary school, then refined in middle school and perfected in high school and university. Functional illiteracy is a social phenomenon, no longer confined to the individual, because it is increasingly widespread. Therefore it is a social emergency. According to some, the pandemic, with the increase in the use of digital technologies and working from home and distance learning, will reduce functional illiteracy.
In the end I condensed everything into that simple, clear, unambiguous sentence. It worked? No, not at all. The requests continue and will continue to arrive, rest assured. And I'm calm too, having Special Data now put my soul at peace, as they say. Either they stop at the title of the page (Guest post – Guidelines for writing articles on the blog) and start writing to me like crazy (you obey the Link god!) or they really don't understand the text. I lean towards the second hypothesis. If you're wondering how this is possible – and obviously I've wondered that too – I've finally found the answer. It's called functional illiteracy . Functional illiteracy: an evil of the 21st century? What is functional illiteracy ? The functional illiterate is not a true illiterate, because he has learned to read and write, and has therefore successfully attended compulsory schools.
Indeed, in the majority of cases he even has a diploma and, strangely enough, he is often also a graduate. He is functionally illiterate, that is, he does not know how to use his reading and writing skills, skills that he learned during elementary school, then refined in middle school and perfected in high school and university. Functional illiteracy is a social phenomenon, no longer confined to the individual, because it is increasingly widespread. Therefore it is a social emergency. According to some, the pandemic, with the increase in the use of digital technologies and working from home and distance learning, will reduce functional illiteracy.