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The authors mention a vital point that I believe relates to my own experience with higher education, “Although members of these oppressed and marginalized groups [African American and Latino] may be skillful readers of social relations and sophisticated problem solvers in community-based contexts, too often they do not experience success…

So, as this semester has progressed, I’ve determined that there is a delicate balance with regard to alphabetic (Wysocki) composition and digital composing. However, as delicate as this balance seems to be, I am finding it very difficult to discern this, because there’s been so much text stating that it’s…

Okay, so right away I have issues with something, not that I think Wessling is inaccurate, but that “standards can lead to investments and curricular changes that will improve schools”, which is one of the proponents that she mentions regarding the expectations of professionals and I say this sounds illogical…

This is probably my favorite article so far. However, as I read through it, I didn’t make as many notations as I usually do when I’m reading for class. I’m not sure if this is because I think I agree with everything Weathers states, or because I was too engrossed…

3/4/12 In response to Yancey’s text, I say the students are taking responsibility for their own literacy, because they are practicing the context with which they utilize in the terms they choose. The content that Yancey refers to is content that the student creates and develops as they learn. Infusing…

I want to address the conflict that Rice calls upon, “That one can study and work with a body always in flux, always unstable, and always shifting is a paradox because higher has meant the mastery of mostly stable body of information” I want to contextualize this statement, even though…

I really like the way Ivanic stresses through out this piece that her theory is meant as a process at work: a framework to work from and not necessarily a model. I like this idea, because once we attribute paradigm characteristics to a theory, it seems to suggest that the…

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“The modern search engine has taken on the mantle of what the ancients of many cultures thought of as an oracle: a source of knowledge about our world and who we are” ( Halavais 2). I thought about what this quote means and realized that online search engines or research…

Bringing Twitter into the Classroom: A Low Budget Approach Okay, so I may be a bit biased in my interest for Twitter, because admittedly, I do enjoy my social networking. I enjoy it enough to know that FB is down for this particular semester, but I chose to keep my…