DW 3a

For this task, I chose one of my assigned readings Expository Writing Patterns of African American Students to do a primary analysis. First, the main idea of this article is to share information on how some AAVE speaking students have successfully utilized their language abilities-the language of their everyday lives-within the context of their expository writing and to share principles that have guided the author in his or her work with language diverse students. Furthermore, the principles specifically refer to two ideas: one is the acknowledgement of the value in diverse voices and in cultivating a desire to actually "hear" those voices, another one is stimulating effects of the strategies successfully used by those AAVE speakers in writing classes for the promotion of academic composition studies. And these two ideas are what the author want to inform the audience eventually. To demonstrate those strategies and relate them to his or her ideas, the author used the voices and texts of actual AAVE-speaking students in and out of their school settings. Finally, the author draw a conclusion from the findings of those examples that integration of AAVE features in African American students' writings do not mean poor writing but untapped resources that English teachers could dig out to expand and improve the academic writing skills. Thus, it is obviously to see that this article is a empirical scholarship that revolved around a core concept of writing pedagogy, and supported by the implications of various successful composition strategies used by African American students in their different discourse communities.

As far as I am concerned this article does effectively make an argument about its role in composition studies. To achieve this, it introduced a general background of AAVE within composition studies field at first. Then, it evolved its main ideas from the brief introduction and supported them with the analysis of concrete and typical examples. And this is a very logical method as I thought. Moreover, I learned a lot from it, which I gradually knew why we should respect each other's language: Every language has its own strengths.