ESSAY ASSIGNMENT Cultural Sensitivity and Language:
Based on Amoja Three Rivers\’ \”Cultural Etiquette,\” Lynette Clemetson\’s \”The Racial Politics of Speaking Well,\” and your own observations and experience, write a draft of an essay dealing with issues of cultural sensitivity and language use. Your essay should have a clear, effectively focused thesis, and you should use specific details from the texts to support and illustrate your observations, being sure to use quotation marks when including an author\’s words.
Heads up: Next week, you will be asked to revise this essay to incorporate discussion of additional texts.
READING:
Mary Gordon, \”Putting Pen to Paper, but Not Just Any Pen or Just Any Paper\”: http://tinyurl.com/ml6ve84
UNC, \”Editing and Proofreading\”: http://tinyurl.com/6ra888b
UNC, \”Revising Drafts\”: http://tinyurl.com/mx55rpw
Amoja Three Rivers, \”Cultural Etiquette: A Guide for the Well-Intentioned\”: http://tinyurl.com/k53kopr
Lynette Clemetson, \”The Racial Politics of Speaking Well\”: http://tinyurl.com/2uoe73
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