Only recently have I begun to appreciate how invaluable literacy really is. ... I've made the realization that I have always had a love for the communication of information through reading books, manuals, or websites and being able to write or speak about the information I possess in order to share it with others. ... Perhaps instead of dreading reading chapters, writing essays or solving lengthy equations I once thought were meaningless wastes of time, I would have viewed them as checkpoints aimed towards perfecting my own literary practices. ... In my earlier years I didn't realize...

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