Summary: Gloria Anzaldua’s How to Tame a Wild Tongue surrounds the topic of the many languages she speaks and their importance to her. She refers to 8 different languages she speaks, “1. Standard English 2. Working class and slang English … Continue reading →

Summary: Janet Boyd’s “Murder! Rhetorically Speaking” explains to students what writing with rhetoric is. Boyd makes her piece interactive to help students understand that writing is not just about what you have to say, it is about you say it. … Continue reading →

Summary: Some main points: “That language use in a group is a form of social behavior, that discourse is a means of maintaining and extending the group’s knowledge and of imitating new members into the group, and that discourse is … Continue reading →