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Lydia Wilkes – College Composition and Communication, 2024
Avowing settler status positions settler scholars to join in storying less harmful futures for the discipline. This paper describes the author's journey toward continually avowing white settlerness through the Northern Shoshoni word daiboo' in the fulsomeness of its meanings, which include but also go beyond "white person," to help enact…
Descriptors: Whites, Social Justice, Racism, Indigenous Populations
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Bonnie J. Williams-Farrier – College Composition and Communication, 2017
Code-switching pedagogies do not consider that some features of African American Verbal Tradition (AVT) are rhetorically effective mainstream communication structures in academic writing. My research asserts that when teaching language/ dialect difference in majority white school settings, contrastive analysis techniques such as these may have…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Language Variation
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Elbow, Peter – College Composition and Communication, 2006
Written words are laid out in space and exist on the page all at once, but a reader can only read a few words at a time. For readers, written words are trapped in the medium of time. So how can we best organize writing for readers? Traditional techniques of organization tend to stress the arrangement of parts in space and certain metadiscoursal…
Descriptors: Written Language, Language Arts, Time, Scientific Concepts