What Ques ons Do I Have? Where would I nd the Answer? 1. “The history of college wri ng is not a chronology of events that has already ended; rather, it is part of a con nuing story involving wri ng courses, exams, standards, and expecta ons—all of which exert in uence on you and every other student currently enrolled in a college wri ng course. 1. I wonder what college wri ng will look like within the next 10 to 20 years. Will it be easier, more difcult, or rela vely unchanged? For that I will just have to wait and see. ti ti fi ti ti ti ti fi fi ti fl ti ti ti ti ti tt ti ti ti ti ti fi fl ti ti tt ti ti ti ti ti ti ti 2. Much of what may seem arbitrary or mysterious about college wri ng, and your rela onship to it, can be explained by this larger, public history that has impacted the form and content of contemporary college wri ng courses, as well as all of our beliefs about what it means to be a college writer fl ti ti fi Choose two lines/sentences from the secTranslate/Paraphrase—What does it mean to you? on: Loca ng Yourself in the History of Col- Re ect—Why is this text signi cant to you? lege Wri ng (p.27) 1. To me, this text means that curriculums and educaon in general is constantly evolving. College wri ng is like a giant snowball, star ng small, then picking things up li le by li le and growing larger the further it rolls. College wri ng is an amalgama on of the wri ng courses, exams, standards, and expecta ons of the past, evolving with us. We hold the ways college wri ng in the past has in uenced us while trying to improve it ourselves. 2. To me, this means that all of our ques ons, confusions, and frustra ons with college wri ng are nothing new. All of the things we feel towards college writing are things past students have felt as well. 2. If college writers throughout history all have the same struggles and frustra ons how has no one found solu ons yet? Maybe the answers already exist but it’s rela ve. Since it is not a "one size ts all” type of thing there is no de nite answer. I could always just ask older students for their experiences and advice. ti fi fi ti fl ti Choose two lines/sentences from the secon: Translate/Paraphrase The Beginnings of College Wri ng in Amer- Re ect—Why is this text signi cant to you? ica (p. 28) What Ques ons Do I Have? Where would I nd the Answer? ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti fi ti ti ti ffi ti fi tt fi ti fi ti ti ti ti ti fi ti ti 1. “The rst American colleges and universi- 1. This text is signi cant to me because it’s important 1. When examining the history of higher ins tu ons I es, par cularly the elite, private universithat we acknowledge history of ins tu ons to underwonder what are some of the ways that we can es, were built to provide higher educa on stand them be er in a modern context. Many of us break down the barriers and obstacles as stufor young men of the wealthy upper class, forget that having access to a higher educa on is a dents? Is there anything the students themselves students whose college careers had, most privilege that many people don’t have. Even with all can do to help their peers who were not able to likely, been selected for them long before the programs that help people get here, it’s s ll very obtain a higher educa on? I think I would be able they entered grammar and preparatory frustra ng and di cult. There are s ll a lot of obstato nd the answer by learning more about historischool.” cles in place today that come with obtaining a higher cal ac vism on college campuses and student stueduca on. The reality is that despite becoming more dent led movements. 2. “While all the students at American unidiverse, many of these ins tu ons remain eli st enviversi es spoke English, they did not all ronments. 2. What are the movements or events that led to this speak in the same dialect or register. Some change? It is a lot easier for na ve people to obhad, throughout their lives, become used to 2. This second text is signi cant to me because it retain a college educa on now than it was 50 years hearing and speaking standard, formal conminded me of Na ve Hawaiian students’ struggle to ago. I can nd answers by looking into these struc ons; others had grown up hearing a be accepted into academia around the 60s or 70s. events and learning the names of the people we mix of formal construc ons and slang or Many Hawaiians did not speak English, and if they have to thank for these changes. street language. The conven onal King’s did, they spoke in Hawai’is pidgin dialect. If I’m corEnglish of the wealthy class that had been rect, this was not exclusive to Na ve Hawaiians either the norm for entering freshmen was mixing it happened to people from other ethnici es that with the more everyday language or verimmigrated there to work on planta ons. nacular English of the middle class.”
