Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, author of the article, “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum”, conducted an experiment that followed one student over a twenty-one month period, through three separate college classes to record his behavioral changes in response to each of the class’s differences in their writing expectations. The purpose was to provide both student and professor a better understanding of the difficulties a student faces while adjusting to the different social and academic settings of each class. McCarthy chose to enter her study without any sort of hypothesis, therefore allowing herself an opportunity to better understand how each writing assignment related to the class specifically and “what …show more content…
Through trial and error, college students are having to figure out what constitutes as acceptable writing for every one of their separate classes all on their own without their ethnic backgrounds taken into consideration. While although Dave was considered privileged because of his years of experience in classrooms that consisted of teachers and students who shared similar social backgrounds, “students from diverse communities may need… teachers in the disciplines… [to] provide them with assignments and instructional support appropriate for first steps in using the language of their community” (262) McCarthy’s findings contribute to the notion, “learning to write… is not only a developmental process that occurs within an individual student, but also as a social process, that occurs in response to particular situations” (236). Although McCarthy only documents Dave as he takes this “journey across the curriculum”, her study is addressing the college student body as a whole. She declares that the success of a student is determined not only by their intelligence, but also their ability to adapt to a wide range of social and academic settings without any negative interference towards their
Furthermore, Sam does not report any family history of mental health concerns. However, Sam reports he frequently experiences stereotype threat as an African American student attending a Predominately White Institution (PWI) and having met the academic standards and demands from his parents. For both reasons, Sam takes advantage of the resources and learning opportunities his current institutions offers to bolster his academic success. First, Sam utilizes the writing center, which assists with improving his academic and scientific writing skills. Also, he attends all study sessions related to his majors for additional opportunities to grasp concepts and application of the material taught in lecture.
‘The other side of the world’ Is a book written by Stephanie bishop, released 30th of June 2015 which exposes different characteristics amongst Henry and Charlotte where are they are both portrayed to be self-centred and selfish. Each character embarks on a journey to find their true identity and to develop and connection and sense of belonging between a place. The novels importance of belonging and identity is demonstrated through the way Stephanie bishop places each character in a difficult position where she has chosen for them to react in a certain way. This novel uses a complicated approach to express the ideas of identity and development in the connection to home. Stephanie has best suited the audience to be adults who are experiencing
The initiation story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood. It mainly shows that young protagonists after experiencing certain events who are changed his original world view, or are changed his character, or both. These changes get rid of his childhood innocence and finally lead him to enter a real but complex adult world. Just like these themes, such as love, death, and life, growth is a classic and eternal theme. As a result, growth is one of the significant literature writing resources.
In this article “Taking The Common Ground Beyond Cultural Identity” written by Kenneth A. Bruffee is an American Writing Center administrator and a professor emeritus in the department of English at Brooklyn College. He talks about the present patterns in multicultural liberal instruction. He expresses that the first undertaking of multicultural training, recognizing contrasts and making social "groupings," has missed the mark as the contrasts in the middle of "them" and "us" turn out to be more evident in advanced education. He proposes that understudies should now "figure out how to perceive and attest our honest to goodness shared characteristic”. Bruffee proposes that understudies ought to rather take in more about their own characters
Who is Doris and why is she so important? Doris is the main character in the stray by Cynthia Rylant, and she is the one who found the stray dog. Doris is kind and likes to help animals because she brought the puppy in her home. Doris also has a kind heart toward animals because most people would just leave the stray dog outside to freeze and starve which is not very kind. In the stray Doris’s dad is starting to be giving because he let the Doris keep the stray puppy.
If we were able to make our children smarter, better looking, or more athletic, should we? Amy Sterling Casil had that exact scenario in mind when she wrote her short story, Perfect Stranger in 2006. Written in the first-person narrative that takes place in the distant future, Casil weaves a terrifying story of genetic alteration to “fix” our children’s flaws. What harm can it cause if gene therapy is performed as an elective procedure rather than medical necessity? Gary and Carolyn, expecting parents, find out their little boy will need gene therapy while still in the womb if they hope to spare him from a fatal heart condition.
Going through the Writing Composition II (WRC II) course this semester was a lot different than I thought it would be. Coming into my first semester at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) I knew I had always been a strong writer so I believed I would be able to breeze through the course, but I was very much mistaken. I learned quickly that writing in high school and writing in college are two completely different animals. The WRC II course mainly focused on writing persuasive arguments, something I had done in high school only a handful of times.
The United States is a country that is filled with different, and often, contradicting ethnic beliefs. Often times these ethnic beliefs impact how certain individuals are not only looked at but also treated. The discrimination that individuals often received from other people is referred to as racism. Racism in the United States has been a touchy subject in recent years, which is why writers don’t like to discuss the issue in their work. However, Susan Saulny the writer of “In Strangers’ Glances at Family, Tensions Linger” talks entirely about racism and how it has impacted the life of Heather Greenwood, a wife and mother, living in Lambertville,
Acceptance and Freedom: The Duvitches To ponder the biggest freedom movement of the century, it is probable that one would think of Martin Luther King Jr’s fight in the civil rights movement; the theme is often limited to freedom but, what King was fighting for simultaneously was acceptance of black Americans. While the Duvitches’ freedom in The Strangers Who Came to Town was not lead by a civil rights movement, it followed the same concept. They required the acceptance of the townspeople to achieve their freedom. Each member of the family fought their own battles; Mrs. Duvitch and her appearance, Mr. Duvitch and his untouchable status and the torment the Duvitch children faced at school. Mrs. Duvitch rarely showed her face, causing her to be the subject of the townswomen gossip.
“Stranger in the Village” by James Baldwin is certainly not the usual story merely filled with poignant and sore experiences of a misfit black-man in the seemingly “exclusive” white-men community. It is rather an unbiased and genuine glimpse into the history of a whole societies at different geographical locations and their functionality at that time. This glimpse allows the reader to assess societies’ philosophies over the delicate and controversial subject about one’s designed place based on his race and nationality. Author shares experiences about reigning viewpoints and definitions of normality and abnormality amongst 1950’s typical Swiss and American citizens. Baldwin provides a description of the Swiss village he is living in, its citizens,
In two or three complete sentences, describe the setting of the story. Remember to include details of both time and place in your response. The short story “The Strangers That Came to Town” by Ambrose Flack takes place sometime in the mid to late 1900’s in America. At first the setting is described as dark and stormy however it changes and takes place on Syringa street, a beautiful and old neighbourhood. Syringa street is a charming country lane surrounded by cottages, pretty flowers and some vegetable gardens and hen houses.
Susan’s perspective about writing is that it is a necessary tool in any career field and should be used on an everyday basis. In her field, writing is imperative and used every single day. She feels that her writing has to be clear and concise especially when it comes to being about a student. Her main audiences are teachers, students, counselors, principals, or other professionals. At times, other universities are also her main audience.
Starting off the year, I was and still am, very intimidated of a college level writing course. Since it was an engineering based writing class, my worries eased up a bit. When I attended the first class I didn’t know anything over the technical communication writing style. Slowly I developed an understanding over the writing style by reading the text book and other supplemental readings. When our group (Construction Management and Nursing) was assigned with the first group project, I was able to apply what I’ve learned so far in the class.
INTRODUCTION For the purpose of this assignment I have selected the film Freedom Writers (2007). As a teacher in a post-primary DEIS school, this film was of particular interest to me for its high-school setting and the disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds of the students. Freedom Writers is a movie adaptation of Erin Gruwell’s non-fiction book Freedom Writers Diary: How a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them (1999). The film follows Erin Gruwell, a newly qualified and enthusiastic English teacher, as she navigates her way through school politics, prejudice, racism and personal circumstance to help a group of at-risk teens to fulfill their potential.
The mentioned study practiced a group of teachers for two days on modeling (6+1 Traits) and how to evaluate their own pieces of writing. Then, the trained teachers applied the traits in classrooms with students by having students write narrative, descriptive, or persuasive pieces of writing. Next, the researchers compare the results of the teachers in the workshop with the results of students in classrooms. Another methodical study prepared by Michael Coe - Cedar Lake Research Group - in the U. S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.