The Write/Right to Language
The last couple readings have directly and indirectly related to language, and one of the readings over the weekend, speaks to a student’s right their home language.
A few years ago, a scholar in rhet/comp blogged in response to the question, “is academic writing white?” In other words, she was wondering whether or not writing in/for the academy favored a “white” language. She concluded that while it began that way, it isn’t any more and she used Adam Banks’ CCCC Address as a pivotal example of how it’s not. We might argue that both pieces suggest otherwise for what it means to write inside the academy today. However, it is, of course, not that simple. And that’s what I want us to think on and respond to for this post.Â
And whatever happens, keep experimenting what what you want to say and how you want to say it. -- Carman KynardÂ
These ideas—funk, flight, and freedom—speak to the role I believe composition
and communication can play in the academy—to who we be; to how
we go about the work we do; and to what work we see ourselves having come
here to do. -- Adam Banks
In a way, what I want you to do builds on our digital journey because it moved around the ways in which language/words can be and are perceived of and used. And it definitely connects to the conversation we’ve been having.Â
So using all of this, plus the two readings as context, please create a spoken text using your own, home language in response to a time you felt marginalized in an academic setting. It could be because of your language; it could be because of your gender; it could be because of the color of your skin; it could be because of who you are as a person. The words you use to create this text should be natural for you, they should represent who you are as a writer, but more importantly, as a person.Â
Also, because of the genre I’m asking you to compose, we will be sharing these in class on Tuesday,Â
DUE by class time on Tuesday, February 27, 2018.Â