Manny’s words ring through his head: This Captain Save-A-Hothing is gonna get you in trouble, dawg.He looks Melo over. She’s now sitting with her head leaned backagainst the car door, half-asleep, mouth open.He sighs. Even drunk, Jus can’t deny Melo’s the finest girl he’s everlaid eyes—not to mention hands—on

Justyce fights the urge to look at his arms. It’s hard to see the bruisesbecause his skin is such a deep brown, but even after a week, they’restill there.Sometimes he thinks they’ll never fade.“Yeah, they’re all right. Mel gave me this weird ointment fromNorway. Smells like Altoid-covered feet, but it’s doing the trick.”Manny’s quarterback throws a deep pass, but it’s short. Justyce’s freesafety intercepts. “We got back together last night.”Manny presses Pause. Turns to his boy.“Dawg, you are not serious right now.”

So many guns. Just like the one Castillo kept his hand on whiletreating Jus like a criminal. One wrong move, and Jus might’ve beenthe next Shemar Carson.He shudders. “Hey, you mind if we play something a little less...violent?”Manny pauses the game. Turns to his best friend

All I can think now is “How different would things have gonehad I not been a black guy?” I know initially the cop could only goby what he saw (which prolly did seem a little sketchy), but I’venever had my character challenged like that before.Last night changed me. I don’t wanna walk around all pissedoff and looking for problems, but I know I can’t continue to

Melo responds in her usual delicate fashion: she screams and beatshim on the back with her fists.Justyce struggles to get the back door open and is lowering her intothe car when he hears the WHOOOOP of a short siren and sees theblue lights. In the few seconds it takes the police car to screech to astop behind him, Justyce settles Melo into the backseat.Now she’s gone catatonic.Justyce can hear the approaching footsteps, but he stays focused ongetting Melo strapped in

revision plan, noting what you will revise and how you plan to revise your textual evidence. Then, go through your entire paper following the same steps to look at the ingredients in your textual evidence sandwich, before you serve it.

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Next, follow it up with the bread, which is your analysis and this is the most important part of the sandwich, for without the final piece of bread, the sandwich falls apart.

A short list of verbs to use in signal phrases

e convey an author’s ideas in our own words, but unlike summary paraphrases are the same length as the original text.

We can summarize any amount of text and when we do, our summary is always shorter than the original piece of writing.

(Please see Academic Ethics in the course syllabus for more information about how your professor views plagiarism, and here for San Francisco State University’s policy on plagiarism.)

Plagiarism comes in many forms which makes it complex, but some simple forms of it are neglecting to cite textual evidence (direct quotes, paraphrases, and summaries), borrowed ideas, or language.

o they may access them and to accredit the work and ideas you have borrowed and included in your writing.

Drawing on the work of other authors, thinkers, and speakers builds your credibility and helps you explore your thoughts about a topic from different angles and depths.

our body paragraph/s that prove/s your topic sentence should have 30% evidence and 70% analysis. Keep in mind that if you use at least three pieces of evidence, you are able to establish a pattern of thought. Analysis is the most challenging aspect of composing your body paragraphs since you are sharing with your audience the connection between and relevance of your ideas and opinions; this takes time, space, and work. So do not rush this process, and enjoy exploring and sharing your thoughts with your audience

Evidence informs your audience about the topic you frame with the topic sentence, consider using different forms of evidence to inform your audience about the topic, by using

Cause the only God of language is the one recorded in the Genesis

So unless you’ve seen it rob a bank stop calling my hair badI’m so sick of this nonsensical racial disparitySo don’t call it good unless your hair is knownfor donating to charity

“Yo! Why dese books neva be about my peoples”Yes, I have decided to treatall three of my languages as equalsBecause I’m “articulate”But who controls articulation?

’m so tired of the negative images that are driving my people madSo unless you’ve seen it rob a bank stop calling my hair badI’m so sick of this nonsensical racial disparitySo don’t call it good unless your hair is knownfor donating to charity

But you can’t expect me to speak your history whollywhile mines is broken

indefinite transformationNow you may think that it is ignorant to speak broken EnglishBut I’m here to tell you that even “articulate” Americanssound foolish to the British

nclude people who are affected by decisions in the decision-making

ake the time to analyze how people inside and outside the organization get and share information; figure out which things need to be written down and come up with alternative ways to document what is happening; work t

he defensiveness of people in power creates an oppressive culture

ealistic workplans; leadership which understands that things take longer than anyone expects; discuss and plan for what it means to set goals of inclusivity and diversity, particularly in terms of time; learn from past experience how long things take; write realistic funding proposals with realistic time frames;

mistakes are seen as personal, i.e. they reflect badly on the person making them as opposed to being seen for what they are –mistakes

Code switching, from a linguistic perspective,

nlarge our perspective about what good writin is and how good writin can look at work, at home, and at school. The narrow, prescriptive lens be messin writers and readers all the way up, cuz we all been taught to respect the dominant way to write, even if we dont, cant, or wont ever write that one way ourselves.

dont believe the writin problems of graduate students is due to lack of standard English; they problems likely come from learnin new theories and new ways of thinkin and tryin to express that clearly, which take some time. New ideas dont always come out clear and understandable the first few times they expressed.

various cultural perspectives. And we should teach what it take to understand, listen, and write in multiple dialects simultaneously

One of his points almost on da money— the one when he say teachers of writin courses need to spend a lot of time dealin straight with writin, not only with topics of war, gender, race, and peace. But he dont like no black English and Native American rhetoric mixing with standard English. Yeah, he tell teachers to fake like students have language rites. He say, If students infected with the facile egalitarianism of soft multi-culturalism declare, “I have a right to my own language,” reply, “Yes, you do, and I am not here to take that language from you; I’m here to teach you another one.” (Who could object to learn-ing a second language?) And then get on with it. (Fish “Part 3”)

sATTITUDES. It be the way folks with some power perceive other people’s language

white supremacy culture

That kind of variation is common.

he chart above is based on an analysis done by The New York Times and the Urban Institute’s Center on Education Data and Policy.

We undertook this project because the college-dropout crisis is a major contributor to American inequality

olleges have lower graduation rates when they enroll more lower-income students, more black and Latino students, more men, more older students and more students with low SAT or ACT scores.

College matters so much because it isn’t just about book learning or the development of tangible skills. It’s one of the first obstacle courses of adult life. The students who complete it typically go on to earn more and live healthier and happier lives, research shows.

students

We do not write in a vacuum; you are writing to someone about something. If your intended audience is not clear, please ask your professor.

hesis is the result of a lengthy thinking process,

your professors should always inform you of whom your intended audience is for an assignment since this knowledge will allow you to shape your paper in response to your intended audience. We do not write in a vacuum; you are writing to someone about something. If your intended audience is not clear, please ask your professor.

The assignment’s task will determine the general topic of your paper and what you think about this topic will focus it further. For some assignments, you will be given a specific topic whereas for other assignments, you will have free reign to determine the topic yourself.

you are able to consider and address the purpose of the writing situation. Consider why you are writing the paper — Are you persuading your audience? Are you informing them? Are you showing them something you have discovered or are contemplating? What do you want your audience to do, feel, or think after reading your paper?

s we addressed in the writing process, discovering who is your intended audience reveals to you how to construct your thesis statement and entire paper. Your intended audience determines how much background information you will need to include in the paper and the tone and language you will use. (And once more, your real audience is you, your peers, your professor.)

“active learning” is how you will learn best as a college student.

We highly recommend readers of this text to engage in any such active and experiential learning opportunities your University offers; beyond learning in new ways, studies have shown that engaging in such opportunities, including Study Abroad, networking in student organizations, and gaining experience-based internships, students are happier, more successful, and ultimately get more from their college experience.

Active learning as a college student is when you engage in more experience-based and project-based learning where you ask your own questions, solve problems on your own, teach each other in groups, and learn through interaction with your professor and their ideas, as opposed to passively taking in ideas through reading and lecture.

academic identity, we start with The Writing Project, an essay project about how your identity has been shaped until now; about who you are before you entered our classrooms. Essays that deal with personal experiences and identity are called narratives, and generally tell a personal story or stories that have greater symbolism and/or meaning for how the author sees themselves and defines their identity.

they argue that English is not a fixed language, yet has still been used to uphold fixed standard for achievement tests where naturally those who have continually “failed” come out believing that “reading and writing is not for them.

Depending on various factors from audience, to the academic discipline, to the assignment prompt, college writing is different from high school. If you are reading this textbook, you are preparing your mindset to be open to these differences, to use strategies that match your learning styles, and to succeed as a college reader and writer—which will help you thrive in all parts of your life. By viewing college reading and writing with a more open perspective, and viewing your own diverse ways of learning with a more strategic point of view, reading can be for everybody.

English she used with me, which for lack of abetter term might be described as "broken"

I happen to be rebellious and enjoythe challenge of disproving assumptions madeabout me. 1

QUANDARY: a state of perplexity or dou

hat Asian-American students, as awhole, do significantly better on math achievementtests than on English tests.

had succeeded where it countedwhen my mother finished reading my book andgave me her verdict: "So easy to read"

Amy Tan was born in Oakland,Calif., in 1952.

I believed that her Englishreflected the quality of what she hadto say

I spend a great deal of my time thinkingabout the power of language—the way it canevoke an emotion, a visual image, a complexidea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool ofmy trade.

I've often used the samekind of English with him, and sometimes he evenuses it with me. It has become our language of inti-macy, a different sort of English that relates tofamily talk, the language I grew up with.

“Yo! Why dese books neva be about my peoples”Yes, I have decided to treatall three of my languages as equalsBecause I’m “articulate”But who controls articulation?

Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity -I am my lan-guage. Until I can take pride in my language, I cannot take pride in myself.

f a person, Chicana or Latina, has a low estimation of my 25 native tongue, she also has a low estimation of me.

Tex-Mex argot, created by adding a Span-ish sound at the beginning or end of an EngHsh word such as cookiar for cook, watchar for watch, parkiar for park, and rapiar for rape, is the result of the pressures on Spanish speakers to adapt to English.

Es una (alta de respeto to talk back to one's mother or father. I remember one of the sins I'd recite to the priest in the confession box the few times I went to confession: talking back to my mother, hablar pa' 'tras, repelar. Hocicona, repelona,

rain it to be quiet, how do you bridle and saddle it? How do you make it lie down?

"We're going to have to control your tongue,"

growth mindset” where learning happens through deliberate practice, all readers and writers become more comfortable and natural with the English language.

udents will be motivated to learn based on genuine curiosity, problem solving, and a curriculum that revolves around their lives.

onstructivist approach,” that always has to involve students.

f active learning and what makes learning engaging, fun, and ultimately the most rewarding for both you, the students, and us, the teachers.

the labor-based grading contract and the classroom culture it supportsrequires participation and input from ​you.​ You will have the chance to negotiate the terms of thecontract as a class twice during the semester.

We needed a language with which we could communicate with ourselves, a secret language. For some of us, language is a homeland closer than the Southwest-for many Chicanos today live in the Midwest and the East. And because we are a complex, heterogeneous people, we speak many languages.

They would hold us back with their bag of reglas de academia

We're going to have to control your tongue," the dentist says, pulling out all the metal from my mouth. Silver bits plop and tinkle into the basin. My mouth is a motherlode.