Volume 7

Reflecting on Literacy Identities Through Writing Personal Narratives

cultural awareness, identity, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, narrative and storytelling, Volume 7, writing in global contexts /

Ruth Li Volume 7 Chapter Description In this chapter, I offer an approach to teaching literacy narratives, which encourage students to reflect critically on their diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. I interweave examples from literacy narratives written by three of my first-year writing students in Saudi Arabia. By examining the ways students’ stories reverberate across […]

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Writing as the World Falls Apart: A Filipino Perspective on Academic Writing

cultural awareness, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, Volume 7, writing in global contexts, writing myths and anxiety /

Florianne Jimenez and Aileen Salonga Volume 7 Chapter Description In this chapter, we focus on how Filipino university students think about and make sense of the notion of ‘good’ academic writing.1 We introduce a social and historical view of the entanglements between English and academic writing in the Philippines, which have resulted in an academic

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Writing Counterstories: Ways to Challenge Dominant Narratives in FYC

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, cultural awareness, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, Racial Literacy, rhetoric, rhetorical appeals and argument, rhetorical situation, Volume 7 /

Sana Sayed Volume 7 Chapter Description This chapter draws from Aja Martinez’s concept of counterstories as a rhetorical research methodology in rhetoric and writing studies and encourages you, a first year writing student, to draw upon your experiential knowledge to both challenge and reframe master narratives that are accepted by the majority. In first-year composition

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