{"id":1764,"date":"2024-10-03T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/?page_id=1764"},"modified":"2024-10-03T12:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:26:15","slug":"communication-guide-assignment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/communication-guide-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Guide Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alexandria Hanson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assignments &amp; Activities Archive<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Hanson-AAA-contribution.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Hanson-AAA-contribution.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f7d4acb8-3e97-4ff8-8e88-1e66edd0b17d\" href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Hanson-AAA-contribution.pdf\">Hanson-AAA-contribution<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Hanson-AAA-contribution.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f7d4acb8-3e97-4ff8-8e88-1e66edd0b17d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assignment Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">First-year students often enter introductory writing courses with a wide range of language experiences and backgrounds. To develop critical language awareness, as Shawna Shapiro writes, it is important to help students \u201crecognize the variation within their own linguistic repertoir\u2014no matter how many languages or language varieties they use\u201d (63). Research has shown that such recognition \u201cis an important starting point for shifting negative attitudes towards the languaging of others\u201d (63). This assignment is intended to help students make this critical shift. The communication guide asks students to consider a familiar space where communication breakdown has the potential to occur and create a guide focused on language usage for outsiders of the community to successfully enter that space. Students must choose a language community that they consider themselves an expert in, such as language used with friends, family, or other contexts. In addition to creating a guide, students present a mini-lesson to the class, where they teach something about the language in their community. This combination of a guide and the mini-lesson facilitates a sense of community within the classroom, validates an area of expertise students bring to college, and recognizes the value of linguistic diversity. Such community building, validation, and recognition is especially valuable for first-year students transitioning to college. Within the communication guide unit, students engage with a variety of texts that help them understand ideas around linguistic variety, discrimination, and ideology such as: \u201cTalk American\u201d from Code Switch, \u201cWhat Makes a Language\u2026a Language?\u201d from TED X, \u201cThere is One Correct Way of Writing and Speaking\u201d from Bad Ideas about Writing by Anjali Pattanavak, \u201cWhy does everyone on TikTok use the same weird voice?\u201d by Alice Hall, \u201cHow did words like periodt, GYAT, cap and drip come to be? All about the Black history of slang\u201d by Alex Port\u00e9e, \u201cWhat Should Colleges Teach? Part 3\u201d by Stanley Fish, \u201cShould Writers Use They Own English?\u201d by Vershawn Ashanti Young, \u201cWhat\u2019s Anti-Blackness Got to do Wit It?\u201d by April Baker-Bell from Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, \u201cThe Rise and Fall of ZuckTalk\u201d by John Herrman, and \u201cFrom Upspeak to Vocal Fry: Why are we \u2018policing\u2019 young women\u2019s voices?\u201d from Fresh Air. More information about these texts can be found in Further Reading below. 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