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Below you will find a passage of writing that is targeted toward a specific audience. Imagine that this passage was targeted to a different audience. Your task will be to rewrite the passage to change its target audience to a different demographic, (sub)culture, or generation. You are only permitted to do this through language choice alone and not by changing the meaning of the text you have been given.

Keep in mind that culture is a mixture of the place, people, and time period in which they live; as such, in order to change the targeted culture of the original passage, you will need to analyze your audience in terms of culture, time period, sub-culture, and location. Consider what kind of tone, style, and word choices you should make to make the passage clear to its new audience.

Instructions

2. Below you will find two paragraphs from Vershawn Young's "Should Writers Use They Own English"
4. Rewrite) them from a new cultural perspective, maintaining the meaning and intent of the original passage. Remember that culture is a mixture of time, place, and people, so be sure to identify the original audience (people), time period, and place of the original wording before you decide how to rewrite it.
6. You may change the sentence structure, most words, and references as long as the passage is clear to its new audience and retains its overall meaning.
8. In this sense, the paragraph(s) you submit should still be about whether or not writers should be allowed to use their own English.
10. In addition to the written component, write a brief author's note (max 250) explaining your choices. In this author's note, you must explain the original time, place, and people targeted in the passage, in addition to identifying their new time, place, and people. You should include direct reference to the language used in your rewrite and the original to make these claims.

Passage 1: Your finished rewrite should fall between (140)and (200) words.

(Rewrite) this passage assuming your audience is a group of students at a Canadian College.

Besides encouraging teachers to be snide and patronizing, Fish flat out confusion (I would say he lyin, but Momma say be nice). You cant start off sayin, "disabuse yo'self of the notion that students have a right to they dialect" and then say to tell students: "Y'all do have a right." That be hypocritical. It further disingenuous of Fish to ask: "Who could object to learning a second language?" What he really mean by this rhetorical question is that the "multiculturals" should be thrilled to leave they own dialect and learn another one, the one he promote. If he meant everybody should be thrilled to learn another dialect, then wouldnt everybody be learnin everybody's dialect? Wouldnt we all become multidialectal and pluralingual? And that's my exact argument, that we all should know everybody's dialect, at least as many as we can, and be open to the mix of them in oral and written communication (Young).

Passage 2: Your finished rewrite should fall between (85) and (125) words.

(Rewrite) this passage assuming your audience is a group of faculty at Conestoga College.

See, dont nobody all the time, nor do they in the same way subscribe to or follow standard modes of expression. Everybody mix the dialect they learn at home with whateva other dialect or language they learn afterwards. That's how we understand accents; that's how we can hear that some people are from a Polish, Spanish, or French language background when they speak English. It's how we can tell somebody is from the South, from Appalachia, from Chicago or any other regional background. We hear that background in they speech, and it's often expressed in they writin too. It's natural (Coleman).

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Passage 1 Audience Group of students at a Canadian College Listen up folks Instead of the teachers acting all high and mighty this Fish guy is just plain confusing I would say hes lying but Momma says ... View the full answer