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Langauge Diversity

Purpose

In today's class you will be asked to think about how your use of style--grammar, formatting, vocabulary influence how your audience experiences your text and thinks about the message you are trying to convey.


Freewrite: Language Diversity and Your Discourse Communities

Address the following questions during the first twenty minutes of class:

• In which contexts do you use Standard Academic English?
• In which contexts do you use non-standard and/or non-academic forms of written English? How are these communications received by your audience? Why?
• What is Trotman's argument? Write down a sentence that best reflects her argument.
• How does she support her argument [opinion, history, other articles, experiments, interviews/surveys, studying an artifact (e.g., a document)]? Point to specific passages?
• What is your opinion of Troutman's argument? What is your opinion of the way Troutman supported her argument?
• What ideas or words do you need help understanding?

After twenty minutes we will discuss your responses to these questions.

Activity: Citations

Working by yourself, use the Purdue OWL as a resource to help you compose the correct APA References or MLA Works Cited for the sources you have been writing about in your blogs. Consult with the instructor if you need help with a source.