evaluation on my last post...

I think i am going to combine these 2 responses for the final portfolio...

Reading response 4 is the one I think i brought up really good points in. we have been paying attention to everything these articles about esl students are saying and at times, we've even been getting sick of the repetition. i was looking over the articles and it became clear that there was something extremely important that NO ONE has said, yet. No one has talked about how EVERY SINGLE writer varies. you'd think that, at the very least, people would acknowledge that native-speakers differ greatly. maybe it's assumed that we would just know that? i mean, we do know that writing is different for everyone, certainly, but i have found myself approaching every esl student in the same manner because they're an esl student so they must be like the other international students i've worked with. the same grave mistake that Morgan made- she categorized. the authors have categorized writers of English-the language defined by exceptions to rules and the doctrine that says "rules are meant to be broken"! (One exception may be the article about Fannie because she is mentioned as an individual and not as a race, but then one could easily argue that the author applied the story of Fannie and Morgan to all esl conferences. BUT then one could also argue that the author emphasizes the negative consequences that resulted from Morgan generalizing and categorizing Fannie so is therefore warning against it.)

what do you guys think?