Summarize the author's main idea, supporting evidence of that idea, and how you think it discusses scholarship of AAVE/AAL in composition studies. What does the reading seem to say about AAVE/AAL? Does it effectively make an argument about it's role in composition studies? If so, how? If not, what's missing?

For this assignment I chose to use "A Perspective on Teaching Black Dialect Speaking Students to Write Standard English" by Judith Nembhardt. Basically, she is writing about how teachers in our schools are constantly being trained to teach kids how to write more effectively in workshops and meetings, but they don't know how to effectively work with a child with an AAVE background. Students that speak AAVE at home are labeled as "nontraditional", "culturally different", or "linguistically different". She answers the question of: "Can black students be carried along on the wave of improvement?"

The author believes just by dropping the labels, and even though it'll be a hard task, it is possible to make effective writers of the AAVE students. This writing approaches AAVE scholarship as unacceptable. The students must adhere to the standard English that they are taught in the school. "Children without standard American English are handicapped directly." Not so unacceptable as to destroy it, just to enhance the school language but also let them speak the way they'd like to culturally. The idea of teaching students how to write effectively is a more appropriate strategy then to uproot their cultural habits of language. It is more effective to teach them to write their ideas more creatively then to make students adhere to rules that they don't understand.

This reading successfully makes an argument about the use of AAVE in composition studies. The topic dealing with composition studies is education in the schools of America. What she is talking about is a possible situation where the teachers were more confident and were not intimidated by the fact that it would be tough to teach these sorts of students. She even outlines her own eight essential components of a teaching plan. She uses quotes and information from linguists such as P.A. Ramey, Joan Baratz, Roger Shuy, and WIlliam Labov.

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"Taking Black Technology Use Seriously: African American Discursive Traditions In the Digital Underground" -Adam J. Banks

What is invention?
-research on AAVE (history and analysis)
-writings and opinions of known sociolinguists such as the Rickfords, Smitherman, Gilyard and Crawford
-sites and popular culture related to AAVE
-how AAVE is used personally with users

What is being invented?
-technology dismisses the possibility of different cultures
-technology is used as an outlet for african americans to reveal culture
-no need for just a "white" culture on the internet
-develop online communities where users can relate with culture
-AAVE is a legitimate idea used with technology

What is being arranged?
-research to actual use
-examples of AAVE
-"underground culture" vs. mainstream
-real culture vs fake mainstream

What is arrangement?
-use of examples from users
-quoting research and explaining further
-lists of how to master development

What is being revised?
-technology should grow to help understand equal representation of different cultures
-the idea of policing to "white" standards
-idea of a digital divide
-somewhat of an underground even though it is well known, but still not fully accepted

What is revision?
-users opinions from websites that support the writers opinions
-use of information from sociolinguists
-easy to relate with real examples of what he is writing about