What's the difference between literacy and literature?

Literacy


Definition:

  • (n.) State of being literate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
  • (2) Local church groups run family outreach programs and free literacy courses for refugees.
  • (3) But surely all this short-form writing is eroding literacy?
  • (4) Which is a monstrous statistic, especially when you start thinking about it as a statistic that measures not just literacy but also as a measure of imagination and empathy, because a book is a little empathy machine.
  • (5) Since World War II the literacy rate has jumped to 90%, and has received recognition by UNESCO for its efforts.
  • (6) Think co-ordinator Dr Carlos Gigoux said: “Think seminars really make a university what it should be - a place where you think creatively and critically and engage with society from a human and professional experience.” Runner up: Teesside University The Student’s Academic Literacy Tool (Salt) is a writing tool that helps students learn about the key stylistic features required for a high standard of academic writing.
  • (7) It means that children entering reception class in September 2015 are likely to be assessed using the new system, recording each child’s literacy and numeracy skills within a few weeks of their starting school.
  • (8) High literacy among mothers, good breast-feeding practices, low mortality due to diarrhoea, malaria, and measles, and a well-functioning rural health care system were considered to be the main contributing factors to the low infant mortality.
  • (9) The evaluation was conducted for children only at the end of the project because of literacy problems, but mothers were administered questionnaires pre- and postproject with 8% absenteeism at the end of the project.
  • (10) This coverage was low despite the relatively high literacy rate in Akpabuyo (57.8%).
  • (11) Low literacy is a problem in a large segment of our population.
  • (12) This study assesses the relationship between literacy and labour rates among the adults and children in 17 Indian states.
  • (13) The impact of maternal literacy status on the nutritional status of pre-school children in Parbhani was studied.
  • (14) Longterm gains in this area require attention to behavioral and community development issues, including reduction of the sex and parity related differentials in mortality, enhancement of the status of women, improved female literacy and employment opportunities, improved intrafamilial food distribution patterns, maternity benefits, provision of potable water, intersectoral development to strengthen health care delivery, increased community participation, expanded health services, and enhancement of the pace of development.
  • (15) It is expected that with increasing literacy and progress in sex knowledge the syndrome will become less common.
  • (16) The acquisition of information literacy and fluency will be mandatory techniques for the future practice of medicine and should be taught at the institutional level by faculty sophisticated in the use of information retrieval systems.
  • (17) Unlike in Mali , education is free in the camp so this is a good place to start.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nafissa with a volunteer and an employee of Intersos’s support centre for gender-based violence Unicef says 6,000 children who had never been to school have attended literacy classes at Mbera since 2013.
  • (18) Later, she signed up for courses in literacy, numeracy and retail at a sixth form college in Stratford, east London, working as a domestic cleaner to pay her bus fare.
  • (19) Changes in health service and infant mortality seem natural results of the betterment of education and literacy.
  • (20) Further support for such conceptualizing is found in a positive correlation between certain low literacy skills and the specific results (in 6000 examined cases) on the new drawing test.

Literature


Definition:

  • (n.) Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
  • (n.) The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
  • (n.) The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
  • (n.) The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only 81 cases are reported in the international literature.
  • (2) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (3) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
  • (4) The effects of glucagon-induced insulin secretion upon this lipid regulation are discussed that may resolve conflicting reports in the literature are resolved.
  • (5) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
  • (6) A re-examination of the literature indicates that many phagocytes previously unidentified or considered to be microglial cells are probably beta astrocytes.
  • (7) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
  • (8) The literature on depression and immunity is reviewed and the clinical implications of our findings are discussed.
  • (9) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
  • (10) Based upon our clinical experience and this review of the literature, a suggested management protocol is presented.
  • (11) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.
  • (12) In agreement with the data in the literature, melanocytes incubated with IFN-gamma acquire HLA-DR, -DQ, and -DP antigens.
  • (13) The literature is reviewed to define the role of the different treatment modalities.
  • (14) Therefore, we performed meta-analysis of literature reports in Japan (n = 3), the USA (n = 4), and Europe (n = 20) on the risk of postgastrectomy cancer.
  • (15) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
  • (16) A review of the literature reveals no similar case.
  • (17) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
  • (18) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
  • (19) On the basis of reports in the literature and of our own clinical experience it appears that melanocyte inhibiting factor (MIF) is a very promising therapeutic agent in the management of Parkinson's disease.
  • (20) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.