Meldin Tosic

                                                   ENG 11100

                                                Crystal Rodwell

                                               October 31, 2025

Topic: Education Literacy

1. Introduction 
2.  Opening Statement:  Education literacy has a major role on how people comprehend and analyze text.

2. Introduce the problem: Students are less likely to use grammar within reading/writing in school if they aren’t taught it properly.

3. Thesis statement: With a good understanding of grammar, understanding literacy across different variations of text becomes significantly easier. 

      2.   Background information

1. Define Key Terms:

1. Grammar – Set of rules applied to language.

2. Literacy – The ability to read, write, and understand information.

3. Historical linguistics – Study of history and development of languages.

4. Cognitive – Thought process through experience

5. Contextual – Words that are interpreted with context/ surrounded text

      B. Explain Relationships: Grammar gives a better understanding of text while also is important, let alone reading and writing. If it’s cognitive, it’s also exceptionally important. Historical linguistics also give a good view on how grammar can be interpreted differently, and how some words have the same meaning but are spelled/pronounced differently.

     C. Why does it matter? 

1. It would be significantly harder for people in general let alone students to understand any type of communication or literacy skills.

     3. Point 1: Grammar increases reading comprehension 

1. Explanation: When you are reading a book, article, social media post, or listening to people talk or speeches, it’s common that you will misunderstand the context of what it or the person is saying, which would lead to a massive chaos. Alongside mastering grammar skills, you simply won’t have to deal with that.

2. Evidence: Usage is all about context, audience, and purpose. There are 2 standard understandings of subjects and verbs, taught by teachers to students.( Benjamin, 2021)

         Point 2: Grammar supports effective writing

1. Explanation: Writing without use of grammar makes it harder to understand what you’re talking about.

2. Evidence: Readers need to understand how grammatical markers, such as verb tenses, signal meaning. ( Gordon-Pershey, 2022)

3. Connection: It shows how to make text meaningful and make sense.

         Point 3: Grammar strengthens the skills of cognitive and analyzing text.

1. Explanation: By understanding where to apply grammar, your writing makes more sense. 

2. Evidence: “The resemblance of languages in text shows up representing each other in other ways, both past and present tense.” ( Benjamins, 2020 )

Rebuttal:

    Counterargument: Learning grammar is useless and nobody will apply it. 

Rebuttal: Grammar is crucial for understanding how to read and write because of its use on comprehension and context.

Evidence: The world is facing multiple crises-pandemics and environmental changes catastrophes, racism, xenophobia which leads to human inequality. Schools, the world over, have to endeavor to educate the whole child for the whole world. (Marcelo, Carola Suárez-Orozco, 2021)

      Conclusion: 

1. Education literacy remains very crucial to understanding literacy in the modern world, as language and dialogue is advancing.

2. Instruction to understanding grammar within writing practice or understanding past and present tense helps improve skills by a lot.
3. Further study shows how old text can influence grammatical studies on modern text.

1. Educators should know how affectionate grammar is in the modern world and how to understand text without context and with selective words.