Bartholomae, D. Inventing the Universiy
In this article Bartholomae discusses how college students make so many mistakes when it comes to writing. He refers to us as "novice" writers. He asked a group of students to write an essay on certain subjects ( English, Science, History, Ect..) this engaged student into a discourse community and they started to stress because they were not to familiar with the jargon of these subjects. They started to feel insecure about there writing skills and knowledge on these topics because other people were going to be writing about them too and they didnt know if they were more experience than them.
He says that one must stop thinking about high school and learn to define ourselves as researches because we tend to over dramatize our writing and tend to give too many 'life lessons" in our writing. We must write for the reader, and learn to speak their languages ( mimic our leaders "languages".)
What I got out of this article was to try to better your language skills. Mimic other people that know what they are talking about because that is one of the main ways of learning and it helps you improve your writing skills. "one does not have to be an expert but pretend to be one"
Friday, September 7, 2012
Momma's Memories and the New Equalities
Momma's Memories and the New Equalities
This article by Young talks about racism today. Racism today it different than it was back in the 1950's that colored people couldn't sit in front of a bus or had to go to a different school from the whites. Today's racism deals with Microaggression ( making sterotypical assumptions).
People now a days try to ignore the fact that there are other races by just being "color blind" this is just an atteempt to ignore the existence of another race. School teachers now are "code switching" meaning that they are translating black dialet into standard English for students. This is wrong in so many ways because they are making it seem like color people are aliens to our society and the feel like its the right thing to do to translate they way they communicate, the way the express themselves. People drown in their own ignorance a perfect example of this is Senator Harry Reid when he commented on how Obama is such a successful Politician because he has "light skin and he does not have a negro dialect, unless he wanted to."
Young's argues his point of view by sharing a story that his good friends daughter Shayla experienced microggression first hand. Some of her classmates where asking her why she was so black, why was her hair so curly, why was her but so big? They did not mean to be racist towards her they were just curious why she was so different than they were. Other meaningful key terms in this article where Microinsult (which is communication that convey and demean a persons racial heritage or identity) and Microinvalidation ( communication that exclude, negates, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiental reality of a person of color)
This article made me realize that racism isn't no where near over and that some times racism isn't intended but it still occurs. We need to create racist free place for the future generations to follow.
This article by Young talks about racism today. Racism today it different than it was back in the 1950's that colored people couldn't sit in front of a bus or had to go to a different school from the whites. Today's racism deals with Microaggression ( making sterotypical assumptions).
People now a days try to ignore the fact that there are other races by just being "color blind" this is just an atteempt to ignore the existence of another race. School teachers now are "code switching" meaning that they are translating black dialet into standard English for students. This is wrong in so many ways because they are making it seem like color people are aliens to our society and the feel like its the right thing to do to translate they way they communicate, the way the express themselves. People drown in their own ignorance a perfect example of this is Senator Harry Reid when he commented on how Obama is such a successful Politician because he has "light skin and he does not have a negro dialect, unless he wanted to."
Young's argues his point of view by sharing a story that his good friends daughter Shayla experienced microggression first hand. Some of her classmates where asking her why she was so black, why was her hair so curly, why was her but so big? They did not mean to be racist towards her they were just curious why she was so different than they were. Other meaningful key terms in this article where Microinsult (which is communication that convey and demean a persons racial heritage or identity) and Microinvalidation ( communication that exclude, negates, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiental reality of a person of color)
This article made me realize that racism isn't no where near over and that some times racism isn't intended but it still occurs. We need to create racist free place for the future generations to follow.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writers Block
Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writers Block
Writers Block!!! Don't we all hate it when this happens to us? For those of you out there that are lucky enough not to experience this here is a brief description of what writers block is. Writers Block is when ever you have to write any type of paper and you are not able to due to not knowing how to properly express your ideas on paper, you know exactly what you want to write about but some how the word, phrases, sentences don't seem to be in the right place. Students with writers block sometimes have trouble meeting dead lines resulting in bad grades.
This article called "Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writers Block" by Mike rose talks about how writers block is a very common thing that students encountered while writing a paper. Rose conducted a study analyzing 10 graduate students from UCLA. 5 out of the 10 students encountered writers block. While the others proceeded with there writing like it was nothing. The 5 students had writers block because they were trying to come up with a strategy to approach the topic.These students were spending so much time trying to do all the strategies because they believe that in order to have a good paper you have to have a good beginning.What they don't know is that these strategies that they were thought back in middle and high school by there teachers are crippling their writing instead of enhancing it.
In his article Rose offers a solution for these students. He states that getting help and tutoring are the cure for writers block. This article was an eye opener for me because now that I look back at times that I had writers block it was because I was myself and my writing, now I get straight to the main points and organize them throughout the paper and eliminate unnecessary content. This is very beneficial to know especially in an English class.
Writers Block!!! Don't we all hate it when this happens to us? For those of you out there that are lucky enough not to experience this here is a brief description of what writers block is. Writers Block is when ever you have to write any type of paper and you are not able to due to not knowing how to properly express your ideas on paper, you know exactly what you want to write about but some how the word, phrases, sentences don't seem to be in the right place. Students with writers block sometimes have trouble meeting dead lines resulting in bad grades.
This article called "Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writers Block" by Mike rose talks about how writers block is a very common thing that students encountered while writing a paper. Rose conducted a study analyzing 10 graduate students from UCLA. 5 out of the 10 students encountered writers block. While the others proceeded with there writing like it was nothing. The 5 students had writers block because they were trying to come up with a strategy to approach the topic.These students were spending so much time trying to do all the strategies because they believe that in order to have a good paper you have to have a good beginning.What they don't know is that these strategies that they were thought back in middle and high school by there teachers are crippling their writing instead of enhancing it.
In his article Rose offers a solution for these students. He states that getting help and tutoring are the cure for writers block. This article was an eye opener for me because now that I look back at times that I had writers block it was because I was myself and my writing, now I get straight to the main points and organize them throughout the paper and eliminate unnecessary content. This is very beneficial to know especially in an English class.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Underlife and Writing Instruction
Underlife and Writing Instruction
I found this article completely interesting. It gave me a whole new perspective on a class room setting. The authors main argument point is that sometimes teachers get mad at theirs students because they believe that the students are getting off topic because they are talking with each other, even though the students are talking to each other they are relating what is going on in class to a personal experience outside of school. I agree with the statement that the author said in his article "The point is not disrupt the functioning of the class room with a sense that one has other things to do, other interest that one is a much richer personality that can show in this context". The reason why I agree with it is because some time in class instead of fully listening to the teacher you start and wonder about something different like another class or home work and by doing so the teacher believes that you are not paying attention there for you are disrupting the class. This article connects with our class in the sense that our teacher might of thought that we did not know what she was talking about or we did not know certain definitions for simple words ( like when she asked what a summary was) because no one in the class was responding. In reality most of us knew what a summary was we just did not respond because we were nervous and socially awkward due to it being our first day.
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