Monday, February 9, 2009

Journal #9

1. Powell is trying to determine how one's genre, academic disicpline, or ethnic background can affect their self-representation within a small school.
2. She uses the activity theory to see how competetive goals will affect a student's writing. In other words, she examines the product of certain individuals and analyzes which factors produced such an outcome.
3. It is hard to pin-point what genre a student will use, especially because most teachers will dictate whichever one they would like to see. Most students aim to please their professor so creativity is diminished.

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