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Reading and Writing are Superpowers*
Gee argues that “true acquisition of many mainstream [dominant] Discourses involves, at least while being in them, active complicity with values that conflict with one’s home- and community-based Discourses, especially for many women and minorities” (13). Delpit responds to Gee, countering that “acquiring the ability to function in a dominant discourse need not mean that Read More …
“Patchwriting” is the term writing researcher Rebecca Moore Howard (1993) uses to describe the incomplete paraphrase strategy that writers just emerging in a field often find themselves using to make it seem as if they are more knowledgeable than they are. It’s not just student writers who patchwrite. Howard reports on the work of Miguel Read More …
Add a comment to this post, in which you include, attribute, explain, and cite a passage from “I Just Wanna Be Average” that resonates with you. Your goal in your comment is to explain something new-to-you that have learned about literacy by looking at this passage through the lenses of one or more of Juliane Read More …
