Expressing Yourself Through Writing

Expressing Yourself Through Writing

Many people believed that STROL was a great system that allowed teachers to understand the true meaning of diversity and allowed students to express themselves in their own language. STROL was also used to allow students to write in their own discourses without the fear of rejection or teachers enforcing a standard way of writing. Many people came to realize that everyone is different and many people talk and write differently then Proper English, but that doesn’t mean you have to make them feel like their doing something wrong.  In the article Students Rights to Their Own Language stated, “We need to ask ourselves whether our rejection of students who do not adopt the dialect most familiar to us is based on any real merit in our dialect or whether we are actually rejecting the students themselves, rejecting them because of their racial, social, and cultural origins”. Rejecting people because they have different cultural backgrounds is not the right way to go about it. I think its very interesting learning about different cultures because it allows you to get a sense of who someone else is and how they do things that are different from the way you do things.

            Writing is used as a form of expression and some people feel the most comfortable when writing in their own discourse/language. Sometimes it’s hard writing when you feel like it’s not your true self because your teacher told you to write this way. Many people want to feel free writing the way they want to and not the way someone else wants to.

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            At times I have a hard time expressing my true self because the way I talk is different from the way I write. Growing up I was taught to write a certain way and that people should not use slang as a form of writing. If I write “Luv u 4 ever” in my essay I will feel like I’m writing in a wrong way. I was always taught to articulate my words properly in a way anyone can understand me.

            Jeff Zorn argues that STROL is not a great system for students. He believes STROL holds students back from officially getting them the standard academics they need. I think he feels that if students want to get far in life they need to establish proper English so they will be able to communicate with a variety of people. Zorn states, “SRTOL plants the seeds of Pyrrhic victory in students; it tells them they win when they continue to speak and write their vernacular despite all appearances (low grades, low test scores, bad interviews, bad job performance ratings, etc.) to the contrary. This was my mentors’ exact insight: the disadvantaged cannot afford Pyrrhic victories”. He feels that students are not achieving using STROL because they are not gaining any important skills that will help strengthen their writing. Many people may have different views on STROL but it still gives students the right to write in a way they feel secured.