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• Title: Helping Students Negotiate Dialects in the Writing Center (Tutor's Column) (Column)
• Author : Kristi McDuffie
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 57 KB

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During a consulting session last semester, I made an exciting connection. I was reading through a first-year student's personal essay for a composition course, and I noticed that he was using plural verbs for singular subjects and that his possessives were often incomplete. But after pointing out a few missing s's, I recognized it was a pattern. The week before I had learned in my linguistics class that "dropped s's" are a dialect feature of African American English. I realized that I was not helping the student correct his mistakes--I was helping him translate his paper into Standard Written English. Although I was excited about applying this information, it created another problem: How was I going to address this issue with the student?

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