Look at and analyze published authors’ claims about language, literacy, and identity in various cultural, historical, and socio-political contexts.

Choose ONE course text from below

To put into intertextual conversation with:

Amy Tan, Mother Tongue

Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue

James Baldwin, If Black English isn’t a Language…

Rosina Lippi-Green, The Standard Language Myth

When we put the two course texts into a conversation, your job is to find out what is an argument/claim that the texts are making together on the topic of language, literacy, and identity. Consider how one text supports, illustrates, challenges, complicates, and/or advances the other text. Keep in mind our discussions about intertextuality/synthesis as you draft this paper. You’re trying to balance two texts in service of a single argument – the texts serve your claim.

In order to do so, you will need to:

Summarize/paraphrase and synthesize both texts
Incorporate and “sandwich” 3-6 quotations
Create a strong claim that intertextually examines

Strategic use of course texts through varied methods (summary, paraphrase, quote sandwich)
Intertextual claim (a “conversation” is created between texts in support of an analytical, thoughtful claim)
Analysis (close examination of texts in support of a larger argument)
Organization (the paper is cohesive; transitions are effective; a main claim is developed clearly/strategically throughout the paper)
3-4 pages in Microsoft Word document (at least 3 FULL pages); 12-point Times New Roman; Use 1-inch margins and double-spacing consistently
Have a Works Cited page in MLA or APA