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22: 38:. If you plan to edit the article on literacy, I believe that the best countries to focus on would generally be those in red (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, South Sudan, Afghanistan) and those in yellow (Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Chad, Ethiopia). Please note that the article on literacy is already quite detailed and that any additions need to be properly sourced. Regardless, I hope you take a look at the 196: 123: 74:
that Gobonobo posted in the comment above. Is extending this really the best use of TIMUN94's editing muscle? Would it be better for you, TIMUN94, to research the meanings of literacy and link readers to the table? Or organize the list/table organized by region? Or another idea? The lengthy list
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TIMU - Congrats on getting all the steps successfully completed. My only feedback is that I would like you to find at least three peer reviewed scholarly articles to use in addition to the statistics you have located. I am happy to talk to you more about this. You are ready to start drafting your
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as a topic. As you've noted, that article could benefit from details from non-Western countries, and especially those from the Global South. According to the literacy map on the right, some of the countries with the highest rates of illiteracy are in Africa. If you were feeling especially ambitious,
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I wanted to give you some feedback on your wikipedia edits, but the literacy article is very large and I could not tell what changes/sections you decided to work on in the sandbox. Could you please let me know what sections you've edited so I can give you feedback?
62:! I wanted to get G's feedback and think through next steps for TIMUN94. I agree that the sections on Africa and South America are underdeveloped. I also hope that TIMUN94 can explore how different locations conceptualize of literacy based on context (e.g., 265:. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per the 258:
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edits using the stats you've found. Then, you can look at extending the definition of literacy and adding scholarship about the Global South. Good work!
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Hello Thisismyusername1994. I'm an online ambassador from your Global Youth Studies class. I'm glad to see that you're planning on addressing
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I added a few short paragraphs about Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Afghanistan to the literacy article in my sandbox.
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TIMUN94, I will email you about looking for sources around the idea of defining literacy in specific contexts. Cheers!
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for the feedback. I will take both of your thoughts into consideration.
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in the original literacy article feels cumbersome to me. Thoughts?
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article is, in it's list, replicating in some way the
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Literacy by country (2013 UN Human Development Report)
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literacy
Literacy in Africa
list of countries by literacy rate
gobonobo


18:40, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
Gobonobo
Friere
literacy
list
Prof.Vandegrift
talk
17:04, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Gobonobo
Prof.Vandergrift
Thisismyusername1994
talk
22:10, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Prof.Vandegrift
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16:02, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
AbbeyMaynard
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17:41, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Thisismyusername1994
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14:46, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

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