Dw 3a

Main ideas:
1. Can black students be carried along on the wave of improvement?
2. English departments nationwide are devolving the ways to improve the writing skills of students.
3. Breaking down of labels.
4. Social dominance
5. Teachers are of key importanace

Supporting evidence:
1. “A dramatic increase has occurred in the number of workshops, conferences, and institutes conducted to promote the teaching of writing.
2. “Teachers are being retrained and equipped with the skills to help students become effective writers.”
3. “…if writing teachers are willing to deemphasize the labels and concentrate instead on teaching students, they will discover that preparing black students to write standard English, although somewhat difficult, is an attainable goal.”
4. “..they are showing sympathy toward their black students for perceived social injustices which they believe have limited the students’ capacity to perform on a level of comparable to that of their white counterparts”
5. “Today’s automated society does not have room for the man or woman who lacks skill in the language of education”
6. “Teachers must demonstrate confidence”
7. “Teachers must display high expectations for the students’ success.”
8. “Students muse be aided in making the distinction between their oral speech and standard English.”

She explains in her writing that students need to become more effective writers in the classroom. She also goes on to explain that the expectations for black students and white students need to be the same in order to gain results. Teachers play a huge part in this. They have to have one on one meetings with students as well as grade every student the same way. They also need to learn when to fail and let students succeed. Learning when to correct and student and when not to is a huge part of the educational process for the student.

Nambhard does not talk about AAVE use in composition studies. She mainly focuses on schools improving the writing styles of students. They way she almost avoids talking about BE in composition studies represents her feelings of the use of it. I believe that Nambhard thinks the composition studies should be written in Standard English. She is really missing out on the connection between AAVE and composition studies. She also does not make a connection between the spoken languages the written language. She focuses more on improving writing skills and not so much on speaking skills. She mentions the importance of the distinction between standard English and spoken but she does not explain they ways to improve on spoken language.