Luzon:Genre

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Most populous island group in the Philippines is
Luzon.
The ethnic groups use
these major regional
languages:
Tagalog
Ilocano
Kapampangan
Bicolano
Pangasinense
 People want to live in Luzon considering that
the economic and political center of the
country Metro Manila ,is in this region.

 A result of the efforts from the public and

private education sectors in Luzon, 94% of its
population has achieved functional literacy.

 Functional literacy in Luzon

must be further fine-tuned to
address new technologies-
such as that of the Internet
One of the biggest technological advancements of the
twentieth century is the invention of the Internet
,which has solified the dawning of the Information
Age.

 Instead of being a citizen of a particular country, we

become netizens of the globe
Today ,the Internet is connecting the people
of our archipelago in so many ways.

o Filipinos have now begun using social media

platforms not only for entertainment but
also for social awareness.

o The internet has also allowed writers to

experiment with other forms for expressing
their literary skills.
In the Philippines especially in
Luzon where a good percentage of
the population is wired, some new
forms of creative output mediated
by new technologies and devices
are being created.
Web Blog

Online novels

Mobile phone text tula

• As of 2014 the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of
the Philippines (IMMAP) recorded that there are 38 million
Internet users of this country of the estimated 100 million
Filipinos in 2015.

• Another important feature of IMMAP’s report is that two-

thirds of Filipino Internet users are below thirty years old.

• Functional Internet Literacy is a necessary skill today

especially for this new generation of Filipinos who should be
able to compete intellectually with people of other nations.
 “Flowers in the crypt”
By Catherine Garcia Dario

-A work of creative non-fiction

Creative non-fiction –literary work that “can be an essay, a journal

article, a research paper, a memoir, or a poem; it can be personal
or not, or it can be all of these. (Lee Gutkind)

“Creative” –refers to the use of literary craft, the techniques fiction

writers , playwrights, and poets employ to present nonfiction.

“Nonfiction”- Factually accurate prose about real people and events-

in a compelling, vivid, dramatic manner.
Flowers in
the crypt