Who Am I?

So it's almost the end of the semester, and this English class has really opened my eyes about what the world really looks like, and let me tell you it aint pretty ladies and gents.

Looking back at my old writing assignments and thinking back to articles we've read in class I've never realized that the way one writes, the way one speaks, the way one thinks,  and the way one acts has been affected and/or controlled by the people around us. For example, in my diagnostic essay I wrote about how I strongly believe that family should be important in one's life. I went on on how mothers and fathers were the first teachers in your life, to siblings teaching you how to fight back, protect, love, etc. Basically, the point I was trying to say was that family is important because they are what shapes the person you are today. And, I was kinda right...

I guess I already had a sense that we were taught how to behave a certain way, or how to do things a certain way ever since we were wee little babies by momma and dada (or by some other family member). But I never realize that I, myself, never had the chance to do what I wanted throughout my life until now. And come to think of it, that's a pretty sad life... Don't get me wrong! I love my parents to death, and they sacrificed so much to get me this far in life. and I'm grateful for that. But now that I have the opportunity to do what I want now and I'm on my own, I sometimes don't know and can't decide what I want for myself.

Remember when we had our first blog post assignment. There wasn't really a structure on how a blog should look like, or how what it sounds like. It doesn't say that it has this amount of paragraphs, with these types of word choices, and it has to be in this format, blah, blah, blah...For me, it was really hard to break the title, 5 paragraph, academic language routine. And that's because we were taught to write that way by schools, schools that were taught by government, government that was taught by some white guy. It all goes back to some white guy or  by one person that decided that this is what we should do because it's the "right way", because they say so?! Pffff!!!!

So, since I'm labeled as a college Latina majoring in Biology I don't have the same chances or opportunities of becoming a scientist, doctor, or professional compared to the college white guy next me?! Is it because of my brown skin? My boobs? My long hair? Facial structure? ¿Mi lengua materna? Or is it just because some person decided that white males are better for the job than moi 'cause throughout the years they have "done it better" ? WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN??!!

In my Paper 2 I discovered by looking at what's really behind the mask of my discipline that we as females have to show the whole damn male-dominant-STEM-world that we are just as smart as males by the way we can write a 30 page research journal like them, use very high scientific language, show proof of our research with images WE have done, and even get our research looked at and criticized by some, "Dr. I have a penis and Ph.D and you don't" person?! We have to work TWICE as hard making it even more difficult for us to be at their level and we don't even get the same bank$$$ as them? THIS IS NOT RIGHT!

This society is so fucked up, and that's why I now know I have to change that, or at least try. I know that I have to work twice as hard now as a college student because I wasn't as privileged compared to others. And that there may be people in the future that may put me down, and try to control who they want me to be. But its okay, I'm up for the challenge up ahead. I want to set an example to younger girls who want to be scientist and prove that it can be possible to be successful no matter what color your skin is, or where you come from. I won't let anyone be the backseat driver, it's my choice, I drive my own life to where I want to go.



This English class has taught me to not be my own voice and person. I've never really been able to speak my own mind before, and I've never would have thought that there were different invisable narratives in the world around us. I'm able to express who I really am, and know who I am. Having my eyes opened up and see what really lies beyond this broken world, is something I and we, the new generation of young people coming to this world, have to start a change for future generations to come.

Portfolio Post

This class was an eye opener for me that showed me that it is not only media and images that carry out invisible narratives. I learned that texts very commonly carry out invisible narratives as well as news papers and other types of writing. It was helpful when we analyzed all those readings in class where we mentioned what the invisible were for each one. For example in the "Egg and Sperm" reading, how it was implied that sperm was emphasized over the egg.

 After reviewing my diagnostic essay I discovered that It is really hard to try and step out of your discourse to analyze your own writing. I had to read my diagnostic essay several times to find what were the IN's I was conveying, the hard part was to try and go against my bias because I agreed ton what I had written in the past. I wrote about the fast food workers' strike and argued for their minimum wage to be raised to $15. I noticed I used words like, inhumane, unacceptable, poverty, misery, unreasonable and devastating to associate them with the wage, workers and their working conditions to convince the audience of my point of view. This reminded me of the time we talked about how word choice has an impact on what the message is, and in my case I realized I chose this words that contain negative connotation to portray the workers as the victims who are being treated horribly. I identified two INs, one being that a raise in minimum wage will redeem the unreasonable pay they earned previously. The second IN I identified was that the fast food corporations were responsible for the poverty increase among the fast food workers. 

IN's are everywhere and they also live within ourselves. It may be complicated to decipher them but it is important to recognize they exist within ourselves. In the future, I will work on identifying the narratives that surround me and talk about them. That way, the people that surround me, like my family, will be more aware of INs which means we will be able to lessen the impact it has on our lives. As I head out into my discipline, I will try and identify the INs that are present in my career path so that I can do what I think it's right and avoid being biased through the existing invisible narratives. 

Final blog

From this past semester, the biggest lesson I can take away from Caitlin's class are "invisible narratives."I have been very oblivious to these stereotypes and messages being thrown at me from the media, music, and movies. While looking back at the diagnostic paper I wrote, my key ideology was happiness. As I am rereading it, I fail to see any hidden narratives or messages aside from only wanting to be happy.

I think me wanting to be happy is already a hidden narrative itself because many people seem to think money and wealth is what makes a person satisfied, but I still believe happiness will take you farther in life. I can't think of any other things to believe in because I think happiness is the most important. I think I can definitely take this ideology far into my life because as long as I believe in it, I really think I can achieve whatever my goals are. I've learned from experience that doing something you absolutely hate or dread is completely torturous and lifeless. If I can stay motivated and dedicated, I can definitely train myself to become hard working and to go to dental school.

I don't think I'd want to lessen the impact of this ideology because I want to use it to motivate myself and better myself for all the future has for me. I don't want any negative narratives to control my mind. As for the negative stereotypes and narratives, I hope to help others realize that they are being slightly brainwashed and that they should not take everything from the media personally. I'm glad I have learned to become and be aware of what is around me so I am not blinded by the messages being shown.

Forced to know

I am a person like everyone else. Some people are privileged and some are not. I myself am not, relatively speaking. A lot of what I own is because of myself and my determination to see a better life. That is who I am and what I believe in. Success is what I strive for in any aspect. I love being the best at what I do, and I especially love doing what people do not expect me to do. I spend a great deal of time thinking of paths. I think, wonder, and dream of paths. The most general explanation would be cause and effect.
"Maybe I will be here if i do this, or maybe I will be there if I do that". I think of some of the craziest things, and then sometimes I watch them happen. I don't know what people think of deja vu. But I myself do not take it lightly. There have been a couple times I have "relived" situations but I sometimes think of how I came to be in those situations in the first place and it is pretty bizarre. One example is when I was talking to an aunt who I had not seen or talk to in a long time. So how is it that I find myself remembering talking to her on such a fluke situation. I did not call her or try to see her or anything like that so how is it that we come to have this conversation that I remember being at and what if we didn't come to be would that conversation never take place? sometimes I think of and alternate reality and dreams manifesting the future in all entirety, but we only remember what we live and everything that didn't happen is brushed off or forgotten. The saddest part about is it I have no dreams about my future, and I have no one who I ever talk to about it. That is my constant reality and I am doing as best as I can to hold on to the dream that college entitles success but every day it becomes that much more insignificant. I never had anyone who told me what college was about and I am not sure if I know anyone who went to college. But I am the one burdened with it all out, because I at 19 years old am forced to figured it all out.

Invisible Narratives Aren't That Invisible Anymore

The previous English class I took before this one wasn’t a good learning experience for me. My teacher just told us to turn in our papers without really explaining or teaching us anything else. Don’t get me wrong the guy was nice, but I wish I would’ve learned a lot more. When I entered into this English class, I didn’t know what to expect. But once the lessons began I realized that I never had an English class like this. The lessons actually taught me what invisible narratives were and how manipulating there are. I didn’t expect to learn this. Normally a student enters a English room expecting to learn about paragraph formation or how not to use the word “I”, but I was completely wrong.

This class has definitely made the invisible narratives, finally visible for me. It was incredibly interesting how many invisible narratives there are in the world. The two invisible narratives that stuck in my heard from this class was that most of the quarter backs are white and that a doctor is most of the time concerned of the male gender. This was crazy because I never realized these things and they are right in my face.

At the beginning of this class we were asked to write our beliefs. My first thought was to write about god and the belief I have for the bible. Once we began the class we had a couple conversations about the bible and how we use it a lot in daily life. For instance, we use the words as if we have to live by every word. In the bible it says that women have to respect men while men love women. I took this as if males have to be more superior but why does it have to like that. I am religious but I don’t know why the bible and society has also created the belief that men have to be the head role in a relationship. I believe it should be equal and I didn’t realize that until this class. One invisible narrative that is relatable to this is the Egg and the Sperm article we read. This article was basically saying how the egg relies on the sperm and this article was one of the many examples of how gender roles are depicted.

I have realized that I do carry many invisible narratives with me, but now I believe that I am more careful with what I read or with what I say. Invisible narratives were beginning to become natural to me until this class because I now know how to detect them.

I can lessen this impact of these narratives for other people and myself by making sure I am not blind anymore. By carefully analyzing things I believe this will help a lot of people detect an invisible narrative. I can also share my knowledge that I have learned by letting a person know when they simply don’t detect a invisible narrative.   

assignment 3

For my research paper I decided to write about physician assisted suicide. During my research I found a current situation that happened to a woman named Brittany Maynard. She decided to move to Oregon to be put to death because California don't allow it. She chose to die this year on November first because she had terminal brain cancer and only have one month to live. This situation touched my heart and I didn't look at her situation as her killing herself, I supported her wanting to die with  dignity to have a peaceful death.  Her story was the most interesting information for my research and gave my argument meaning. In fact,her situation gave me a different outlook on physician assisted suicide because me personally I don't agree with it I don't feel like I will have the guts to do it however, in her situation I feel sympathy and wanted to argue that people with terminal illness such as Brittney should be able to have physician assisted suicide as a choice to end their pain.

woMEN

This week in class we discussed what our individual views were about women and their roles, and more specifically what makes a woman a woman.  Initially before the discussion began, I had the notion that a woman is classy, intelligent, well-spoken, respectful and respected and knows her self worth.  When I take a look around at the women I consider role models, these are the characteristics they constantly reflect.  It made me wonder, have they always been this way?  Or have their experiences constructed them this way? Not to say that their parents didn’t play a role in their development (duh), but everyone is a product of their environment.  This lead me to think about all of the trauma women have to deal with for simply being a woman and how it affects their well-being. Everyday women are facing the same battles: rape, harassment, molestation, abduction, and not to mention the ongoing war with sexism in America.   Women occupy about 51% of this country, yet are only represented by a mere 19% in congress.  This information clearly illustrates a division between men and women in our country.  It seems as though there is a deep rooted issue within the mentality of this country and how we view women:  women are not trusted to run this country because they are viewed as less than and weaker than men.  We are not viewed as equals and this places a huge detriment on the progress of women in this country, and I have yet to even brush over the effects of sexual assault.  The mental, physical and spiritual pain that women must carry with them after having an encounter with a sexual predator, requires a type of strength that no man could ever bench press.  As I write this and reconsider my views of females and what characteristics I would use to describe them, I would say that a women is a beautiful complex.  Women are strong, entitled, respected, appreciated, uplifting, understanding and most importantly underestimated- which actually works in our favor.  We will reconstruct the doubt we receive and only utilize it as fuel to achieve each and every accomplishment we set out for ourselves.  Nonetheless, any accomplishment we do achieve will be well deserved -indeed.

                                           

Paper three

             On my third paper I am writing about Obama Care. While working on this assignment, I have learned many thinks like why Obama Care is good and why is it bad. An example why Obama Care is good
because all people will  get health insurance at a low cost. But a bad thing about Obama care that all small business must give their employers insurance, making them get loans to pay off the insurance.

                  By working on this assignment, I had trouble working on this assignment. One reason why I had trouble working on this assignment because this law is a resent thing happening and the law is very broad. Also, its hard working with this law because not many thinks to agree why this law is good. Even though people do agree about this law, more agree this law was a bad idea. In my opinion I am in between. In my opinion, Obama Cares good because know everyone can get health insurance for s low cost no matter if your healthy or not. But Obama care is bad in my opinion is bad because if someone doesn't have health insurance you might get a fine. I believe you shouldn't be forced to buy health insurance but have the opinion to have one

What is a Woman

What is a Woman?

 

In my English class, we spent some times defining what a woman is. I learned that we were not learning how to understand women, but we focused more on "choices." Women can be defined in multiple ways, but it's extremely important to understand what makes someone feel like a woman or man. Some men feel different towards their own masculinities, and some women don't look and consider themselves as feminine.

 

I believe that people should have their own choices when it comes to their own personalities. Regardless of someone's choice, as long as the person doesn't harm other people, it's an acceptable choice. I've met a lot of people who are afraid to make decision about themselves due to their fear of consequences. Transgender people for example, they tend to hide their identities from their communities due to multiple reasons. One of the reason is to avoid from getting bullied. Transgender people experience more bullies than others because they are "different." However, I believe that making a decision is not a metaphor of  "What consequences should I choose that hurts less." Thus, people shouldn't judge other people based on their choices.

 

I learned that I should focus more on myself when making a decision because the decision that I make is for myself, not for anyone. As a said before, as long as my decision doesn't harm other people, I should be fine.

 



Societies 3D Glasses

Societies 3D Glasses

Throughout this semester of english I have learned a lot about life and myself. I now see the world a lot different and I try my best to steer away from the "norms" of society. Learning about invisible narratives and metaphors was a big eye opener for me. I realized that I am effected and influenced a lot by society and it's norms. I internalized what society thinks is right and some of those are my views. It is as little as thinking "Sperm and egg" sounds better than "Egg and Sperm".

Another example is when we were asked "what makes a woman a woman?" and I thought of nothing but sexist metaphors I've been fed over my life. I immediately thought of housewife, likes men, and care for children. I thought to myself and did not say these out loud but it was horrible that these were the things that came to mind. It sucks that thats how most people really think. I had to look at it and think like "wow, thats crazy. Those things aren't true, you need to think of something else." The worst thing is that I couldn't.

For my diagnostic essay I wrote about how alcohol abuse is a major issue in communities of color. The main part of my essay talked about how in low income communities there is a lot of liquor stores which contribute to the problem, and wealthy communities do not have them. This plays into the fact that the more wealth have better living conditions and the wealthy are treated better. The people of color  live in places where access to alcohol is greater which play into the fact that they suffer from alcoholism at
higher rates. The wealthy and privileged do not have to worry about this because they do not have a liquor store on every color.

Its crazy how words could have such power over you. Like in the reading of the egg and sperm and how it basically is belittling women even in text. While I read it  I didn't question it at all or realize what it was doing. I just continued to read it because that is the type of things I am use to seeing and reading. It's scary because that is what the youth is being brought up on and will be raised to believe. Media, text, and everything else are just feeding us different metaphors and we internalize them and see them as truths. We do not

question them because we are so use to them and see nothing is wrong.

I know that I carry a lot of different invisible narratives with me that are not true, and every time i catch myself thinking of them I correct myself now. I need to continue to correct myself when I catch myself thinking this way. I need to remind myself about how those are just norms and they are not true, it's hard because I was raised thinking this way, but I will try my best to see that I correct them.

 I need to do this once I enter my discourse and see what IN's they hold. I need to remember who I am and where I came from. I need to make sure I  am not supporting their beliefs and ideals. I need to steer away from them because in politics it is dominated by white men that think men are superior. I need to put in my head that women are just as strong and smart as men and that people of color are just as good as whites. When I hear people talking about something that is just a norm that has been put in their mind, I will call them out on it and see how they really feel. A lot of people are not educated on IN's and the way they effect us every day, so I feel that it is up to us to show them the light.

Gender Issues: Don't Risk Dudeness

Last week we had a very tough, controversial discussion that had many of us in the class confused. The big discussion question was "What is a women?" This is a question that everyone has a different answer to. The dictionary definition to "woman" is..

1. the female human being (distinguished from man).

2. an adult female person.
3. a female attendant to a lady rank.
4. a wife.
5. the nature, characteristics, or feelings often attributed to women; womanliness
6. a sweetheart or paramour; mistress.
7. a female employer or representative.

So these are the definitions and all I can say is "What!", this doesn't help at all. I've met different type of "women" in  my life. From students, single mothers, married, hard workers, have successful careers, in between jobs, sensitive, strong, wear makeup, hate makeup, shave and don't shave, etc. Doesn't matter if they have "girly traits" or not to me these are all women, all different ethnicities, sizes, lifestyles. But the one thing that we all have in common and go through is the female gender stereotypes. Once we were born the majority of us were given pink clothing, flowers, butterflies, and hearts surrounded us like we were suppose to have a certain perception of the world and what to like, had to have nice long hair, and seen as the most vulnerable gender. I personally dislike the color pink and luckily grew up in a household where my parents let me like anything if I wanted a video game, ball, nerf gun or a barbie, frilly dress, or cute plush toys I was welcome to have them. My parents might of rejected me certain things just cause sometimes I asked for too much but never because it was ment to be for a boy. So since this topic about women was of big interest to me in class I decided to search up gender issues and found a video that really made me say "WTF!"

check it out:

What is your view on this video? What did it make you feel? I'm just like wow Veet, really? So having hair is a guy thing? Why do we all grow hair then? If women weren't ment to have hair why does it naturally grow on us then. So we can just shave it off every time it starts to become stubble? i mean don't get me wrong? I can take a joke but sometimes jokes can go far although this one isn't too bad there's really that go out of line and sometimes interfere with the men's perspective and expectation on women. Gender issues go both ways both men, women and whatever else is considered a gender (hopefully that doesn't sound offensive) has it's certain perception to the majority of the world. the perfect world would be to just accept people for who they are and what they choose to do and be but as you get older and older and learn about all these issues it gets harder to really understand why it's not that easy.

This week we did...

  For this week there was a lot we talked about in class. But specifically there was the topic about transgender and it really had me asking questions. First of all what really defines a woman? People say its periods and having babies but there are women that can do neither. So who really is a woman? But then i try to go back to biological terms and just think that a woman who has 2 X chromosomes is a woman. Simple as that. 

    But there’s inter sex people and that complicate the situation even further.  I feel bad for transgender women because they honestly feel like women and some women aren’t accepting of them. For me personally I am very accepting and think that this is a free country to speak what you feel and be what you want. I don’t believe that this should be one of the limitations. But then again other do and then it just makes it a really big consequence.

   I also really liked that we were able to have a discussion bout this in class. It was nice too hear people’s opinion on this subject and try to understand over even side with their views. I really enjoy group discussions like this for this reason. It really allows for all of us to come together and become more understanding which I believe is very needed to become a better world and tackle topic like the one of transgender.

      Also, I want touch a bit on last weeks topic and how weird it really felt to learn about dialects and how writing in them might look like. While I read that mockery of Zorn’s paper I realized how hard it would really be to have people write in different dialects. In a way I feel like English does us some good but then I don’t approve how “writing right is writing white.” That’s just messed up. So again this topic is very controversial and makes it hard to decide what side to pick.

       Over all I think this week went really well and it allowed us to review view where individuals stand in in this topic. And I hope we talk more in a large group instead of individually. Also, after looking at different dialects I feel like they are important but it would be very hard to teach dialects in English because well not everyone is a master in all dialects.

Change is Needed

This week we have been talking about very sensitive subjects. We began with racial issues and last week we ended with the transgender topic.  I believe that all of these discussions have to be address in a very mature manner that doesn't just respect people's opinions but also understands the reason behind the controversy. What really caught my attention last week was the question of "what is a women?". This is a question that I have never thought about until now and yet I can't seem to come up with an answer.  As far as I know a women is an idea and being female is a biological concept. From history the "idea" of a women is mainly to be  feminine, caring, sensitive and seeks for protection. However, my entire life I have been told by my parent that I women is suppose to be independent, strong-minded and ambitious towards reaching her goals. While growing up I had two different opinions presented to me, my parents and the rest of society. Now I can understand the idea behind parents not allowing their children to watch certain television shows of play with certain toys. We can't change history but we can change the future, women and their reputation will be a very difficult thing to change but I believe that as people educate themselves change will slowing begin to emerge.

When is it okay to say "hella"?!

When is it okay to say "hella"?!

Is it okay to write in your own dialect/discourse? This is what we discussed in class, and this brought up a lot of questions. When is it okay to write in our own discourse? Why do people code switch to sound a certain way due to certain circumstances? Well one of the ways we code switch is when we write academic papers. We would never write like that when we talk to our family or close friends. We only talk like that because we were taught to write like that for 13 years, so it only feel right or normal for us to keep our papers very academic even if we were told to do so in class. During that one exercise when we were told to write in our own discourse/dialect, I honestly had trouble with that because it didn't feel right to be to be dropping the words "hella, OMG, and  LOL"  in there that would only make my paper seem like a joke and it wouldn't really fit into the classroom environment. Many of use use slang or short abbreviations to send messages to each other that way we can express our feelings or make a long word short like an acronym. 

SRTOL is here to let students write in their own dialect, but even then we are still expected to write in a certain way or else our grade will go down. Each professor grades differently and this is based on their taste in writing and how they want the paper to be formatted it's kind of bias at the same time. If everyone wrote in their own discourse there would be way too many dialects and it would cause confusion and only make the class very disordered. yes, it will make the class very disordered, but it will allow the students to full express what they want to say and maybe make the write feel more comfortable writing the paper. In my case, I had trouble doing so, this may be because I was taught to write in a certain way once I entered schooling. It was expected of me to write in a way where grammar, sentence structure, paragraphs, forma,t and vocabulary meant a lot in a paper. I do agree that students should be allowed to write in their own discourse, but only for certain assignments. If it is a research paper they should really keep it very academic or else the readers will not take the paper seriously. It will also be hard to understand what the writer is trying to put across, because not everyone knows all the dialects that each person has to bring in a classroom. There should be a standard dialect for certain assignments to make it easier for the students and graders.

Assignment 3

Detained children

For this unit in English 214, I am writing about the immigrant children crisis. The reasearch has been a bit difficult for finding primary, and secendory sources. Also, its hard to research the topic because being an emotional person, it angers you to know what innocent children are going through.

Big Controversy 

At first, my topic was about abortion and the Roe v. Wade law. However, this was a hard topic because their is many sides to it and you can't  really focus on one. Abortion has always been controversial, and hard to pick one side.

After figuring out that abortion was not my topic I decided to continue with the Children crises going on. This topic is really import an for many people right now. However, people are not very knowledgeable about it.

Many if these children are immigrating to the U.S. because of the violence, gang abuse, and sexual abuse. The children are seeking for government protection, and we are denying it to them. This to me is wrong, however, I go more in depth about it on my essay.

Risk Factors for why children are fleeing their country

This topic caught my attention because it really interest me. Its part of my future discourse, so why not research it.

over all in this class I am doing good. The only thing am struggling with is the presentation we have to do. Am not really clear on what that will be about or how we have to organize it. For that reason that is my main priority to ask in my conference next week.

Transgender week

When it comes to what is a women I feel that is a question with many answers. Transgender is one of the topics that we have been talking bout this pass week in class. I feel just because a men try to look like and sound like a women that still don't make them a women in my eyes I still see a men. I feel that if you'r not born into this world as that then thats not who you are. We also had to write a paper this pass week this paper had to have a agrueing point of view. I enjoyed writing this paper because of the topic that I talked about, but something that made this paper hard to write was being able to argue for the other side.

THE ONLY TIME I HAVE A DRINKING PROBLEM IS WHEN I SPILL IT

Feelin' better about class the past few weeks. This blog post is late though because of some other reasons. Anyway i'm a bit more interested in the class discussions. At the same time i feel incredible apathy regarding the reading materials, especially with the SRTOL readings. I fail to see the importance of any of the conversations about the subject. The idea that allowing students more freedom regarding the voice they use in classroom writing seems like it would promote their voices and power. However, human communication is so incredibly complex and expansive in it's forms that the SRTOL just comes off as underdeveloped and trivial. But I won't go into that here.


Good stuff, semester's closing soon though.

Integrating Dialects with English

For the past week, we learned how to distinguish the difference between a primary and secondary source by analyzing readings about an ongoing debate over a primary source in Composition Studies. We specifically discussed the importance of dialects, whether or not they should be incorporated in an English classroom.

Throughout all of the English classes that I have ever taken, it is pretty shocking that not once, did my teachers/professors ever told me to write in my own voice or dialect until Caitlin’s class. Not even any of the “free-writes” that I had to do were in my own voice which became very boring. During one of the warm ups in class, we were required to do a free-write but in our own voice. I was actually a bit excited because I never had this opportunity but when it actually came down to it, I kind of struggled to write how I would speak to friends. I realized that I struggled to do so because I was always taught to refer to the standards of writing in English, which, in my opinion, consisted of big words, sounding professional, and academic writing.

I believe that it is also a disadvantage for people from other countries who have different dialects, other than English, because they have to conform to so many rules and standards of English that they forget to keep in touch with their own roots. English was not my first language but fortunately, I am still able to speak, read, and write fluently in my own language.

After analyzing the articles in class and reading my peers’ blogs, I believe that preserving your dialect, written or spoken, and being able to incorporate it in an English class is very important but only when it is necessary. However, since English is a universal language, being able to learn the English language can also break language barriers. If everyone were to just stick to their own dialects without trying to learn English, communication between each other would be difficult. It is also good to integrate one’s dialect with English in order to genuinely understand people’s beliefs, values, and the way that they think. Also, people tend to express themselves more when they are given the opportunity to write in their own voice.

DO u write LyK dis?

Over the past few weeks in class we have been discussing whether students should write in their own dialect or not. Caitlyn has also included articles from people who do agree that students should be able to write in their own dialect. Then it was another article stating why we shouldn’t write in our own dialect. Hearing both articles really gave me a better understanding on should we really write in our own dialect. Reading the article why we shouldn’t write in our own dialect made me also agree with them. Although it may be beneficial towards writers to write in their own dialect it may be difficult for the reader to understand. In the beginning I thought it was a great idea to write in your own dialect because I believe it is easier to express what you’re saying and you may be able to elaborate more than writing in the standard way of writing that we our taught. However people write in different languages, some people shorten their words, and etc… People may not be able to understand what you are trying to say either because they do not know that language or cannot exactly understands what point your are trying to prove because of your dialect. That why I agreed with the last essay we wrote because they do agree with writing in your own dialect. Also I believe it is not professional 4 ppl 2 type lyk dis. If I was a hiring manager I would not employ anyone who doesn’t have correct grammar or writes correct English. I am pretty sure anyone hiring wouldn’t take anyone serious writing in their own dialect. When in class we were asked to write in our own dialect and Caitlyn asked us once we were done writing who actually wrote in our own dialect only one person raised their hands and I felt that was because being taught how to read and write the same way your whole life its difficult especially in a classroom setting. I think the way I was taught to write is my dialect because even on my own time I cannot write any differently than I do in class. Maybe if I am taking fast paced notes it will not be full complete sentence or shorten words. But for the most part I write complete words and sentence and think everyone should write the same way. That way it will not be any confusion on what someone is reading. Although I do think if people enjoy writing in their own dialect they should write outside of school. Hearing from others they do enjoy writing in their own dialect.