Signal Phrases & Embedded Quotations Revisions
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Paraphrase
Only to later become a literacy winner due to overcoming this problem and setting them better off.
Only to become a literacy winner later due to overcoming their problem and learning from it. (342)
This revision helps the reader make sense of the point i am making rather than having to read it multiple times to understand it.
The shifting that Williams is talking about comes from idea that sponsors are the ones that determine their literacy level and outcome.(343)
The identity shift caused by sponsors invokes what Williams calls a “Identity Crisis”. This issue leaves the student to become questionable when talking about their own feelings.(343)
In “Sixty?” by Julie McGarvey, she expresses her ability to weather her English teacher with a known reputation for being difficult to impress.
In “Sixty?” by Julie McGarvey, she expresses her ability to weather her English teacher with a known reputation for being difficult to impress.(McGarvey)
In this paraphrase i forgot to add the citation when mentioning an article.
In Alexa Mulroy’s “Thoughts On Reading”, she tells the story of her time throughout her reading and writing career, describing specifically her hate for reading.
In Alexa Mulroy’s “Thoughts On Reading”, she tells the story of her time throughout her reading and writing career, describing specifically her hate for reading.(Mulroy)
In the paraphrase the citation needed to be added.
Quotation
In Bronwyn Williams’s Heros, Rebels, and Victims he describes a student’s identity as “often [shifting] from…. overcoming adversity to succeed… [to someone] who sees them more connected to relationships with others-either teachers or writing peers.” (343)
In Bronwyn Williams’s Heros, Rebels, and Victims, he describes a student’s identity as “often [shifting] from…. overcoming adversity to succeed… [to someone] who [is] more connected to relationships with others-either teachers or writing peers.” (343)
This small change helps the quote make sense with my point as well as stay true to the text where i got it from.
In Deborah Brandt’s Sponsors of Literacy, she describes a sponsor as “any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy.” (556)
In Williams’s article, he describes that a student does not really know what type of label they will become, whether it be “for better and worse, they are not the writers they think they are.” (343)
This can be seen in Tevin’s “Books and Life over Ball”, when his mother took basketball away from him to focus on his education. His mother changed his life in a big way, taking something away from him that he loved, for a greater cause,
“My mom did not care what anyone said, my coach tried talking to her, my English teacher even tried to convince her that she would help me out, but nothing would change my mom’s mind. Although I had to quit the one thing I love the most it really prepared me and made me get my priorities straight I just wished I could’ve went back and actually did what I needed to get a better grade so I could keep playing but it has an outcome.”(Francois)
According to Williams “literacy narratives…. can uncover another layer for students about how literacy has influenced their lives and how they might alter such patterns in the future.” (343)
She is turned into a bitter student who believes that teachers are out to make a student’s life hell, “ every year it is the same thing, you are forced to read a book whether you like it or not and have to pick apart every word the author says. What is the point of that? Why pick apart a story? Just listen and move on.”
She is turned into a bitter student who believes that teachers are out to make a student’s life hell, “ every year it is the same thing, you are forced to read a book whether you like it or not and have to pick apart every word the author says. What is the point of that? Why pick apart a story? Just listen and move on.”(Mulroy)
In this quotation i did not include the citation to the article where i got it from.