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Academic Discourse

This portion of the statement discusses the need for students to learn the history of other cultures and societies in order to be understanding of people from different backgrounds. Furthermore the statement goes on to express the requirement for students to question the "conditioned nature- of their own beliefs about the world. The two authors, Anzaldua and Rodriguez, would have profoundly differing feelings on the subject of academic discourse, because of their very different feelings concerning assimilation. .
             Since Anzaldua contests mandatory English education for Chicanos, she would not be accepting of the university's requirement for all students at UCI to be taught to write formal essays using academic voice and think utilizing "academic discourse-. Anzaldua would argue that this requirement would negatively transform student's personal identities; however she uses English as well as academic voice in her own essay. She would find the requirement to be both objectionable and oppressive, because of her negative mind-set about being forced into learning English in her passage. Anzaldua states in her essay, "Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity "I am my language. Until I can take pride in my language, I cannot take pride in myself- (320). In this quote Anzaldua explains that her ethnic identity and her linguistic identity go together as one. This makes her feel that her language makes up an extensive part of her personal identity. She also explains that she can't feel pride in herself unless she feels pride in her language. She believes that being forced to learn English in America is wrong, and alters part of your personal identity, just as learning academic voice through academic discourse could alter student's personal identities. According to the Academic Senate Statement they want an, "awakening and awareness of the conditioned nature of [our] own assumptions about the world- (1).


Essays Related to Academic Discourse

1. Comparing Vygotsky And Elbow's Theories On Academics

Peter Elbow defines academic discourse as "the discourse that academics use when they publish for other academics" (135). ... Students "need [academic discourse] for the papers and reports and exams they"ll have to write in their various courses throughout their college career" (135) and this is why academic discourse is important and needs to be taught in classrooms at young ages. Elbow says that if you don't teach students academic discourse is "simply to leave a power vacuum and thereby reward privileged students who have already learned academic discourse at home or in school" (135)...

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2. What is Academic Literacy?

Academic literacy has an array of sectors that must first be met to achieve academic literacy. In order to become academically one has to become familiar with academic discourse. Academic discourse is a type of writing and speaking skills that are used in specific fields. People communicate with each other in their own discourse communities. These discourse conventions are a way that people in a specific field communicate using certain terminology. ...

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3. Teaching English for Academic Purposes

Introduction Academic writing is often more abstract and technical than our daily writing. In academic writing, students are required to take on a different voice, tone, mannerism and attitude as well as an additional set of vocabulary. ... Excluding a certain segment of the audience that would otherwise be able to read and understand an important and valuable academic discourse just because of the lack of language used that is too abstract and technical would defeat the purpose of a carrying out a particular academic discourse. ... This shows that, a student's poor writing can be attr...

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  • Grade Level: High School

4. How to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua

Although Anzaldua's chosen structure does not follow the rules of academic essays devoutly, it is highly effective in presenting her argument and is a good example for further speculations on writing styles and the academic arena. ... This defies the academic approach of clear-and-concise writing. ... "Language is a male discourse," is supported with the example of "nosotros," (74). ... The purpose of focusing on language as a male discourse is representing it as parallel to the dominating system, which is male and white or conquered by them. ... Anzaldua'a styl...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

5. Discourse Communitites

College writing reforms and evolves from year to year due to the ongoing social, technological, and educational changes in America. The changes instituted ultimately poor quality writing from high school and college graduates. In response to the history of writing, Russell writes a call to conscio...

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6. The Spoken Word - Oral Presentation

There exist two types of discourse: written discourse and spoken discourse; however, the latter is acquiring more attention and significance nowadays. ... In consequence of the fact that with time linguistic research went beyond the scope of simple sentences to the field of above-phrasal syntax the notion of discourse appeared. ... Moreover, in discourse, a distinction is made between written and spoken discourse. Whereas written discourse concerns written texts, spoken discourse concentrates on oral speech. Depending on time, place, purpose and interlocutors, in accordance with Warren (2006:...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

7. Critical Examination of the EAP Debate

This paper critically examines the varied approaches to teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP). ... On the contrary, vulgar pragmatic EAP instruction is based upon the premise of planned and structured discourse with the use of models, which 'work by displaying basic principles' (Macbeth: 2010). ... Success in tertiary coursework relies on sound knowledge and understanding of the discourse outlined and presented by lecturers and tutors to students. Gaining scope of a students' knowledge of such discourse is largely reliant on their results in assessment tasks, many of whi...

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  • Grade Level: Graduate

8. Documentary Film Proposal

Mhlanga, an academic, writer and activist, native to Zimbabwe and now resident in Britain. ... Mhlanga, during his earlier life in Africa, and how he has since developed into an academic and an educator, succeeding in adverse circumstances. ... He is the descendant of a Zulu warrior, comes from a family of academics and has direct links to royalty. ... However, the specific discourse revolving around human rights, life in Africa is one that, for the majority of us, is very unfamiliar. ... Style The filming style of this human interest and social discourse documentary will be based on the persp...

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