Georgia State University Social and Spoken Language Reading Response For this Reading Response, respond to following prompts in 2 page For many years, hav

Georgia State University Social and Spoken Language Reading Response For this Reading Response, respond to following prompts in 2 page

For many years, having to write in standard English made writing feel “mechanical” to Barbara Mellix, and she says she felt “separate from the language” (paragraphs 16 & 20). Do you feel like your spoken, home, or social English is the same as the kind of English you are expected to use in school and workplace writing? If not, do you think that has an impact on your writing, as it did on Mellix’s writing? Is there anything about your home/social and spoken language(s) that you feel you have to “shut out” when you write? Explain. (prompt is from Writing About Writing, 3rd edition, Wardle and Downs).
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