Category: Topic 2: Discourse Communities
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When searching for your identity and authority in your workplace writing, maybe don’t be like Alan. . .
Learning your identity and authority in the workplace may be difficult, but it’s not impossible when applying Wardle’s advice.
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Owning My Authority as a Writer
Janet and Roger stand as opposing poles on the spectrum of writerly confidence in Penrose and Geisler’s “Reading and Writing without Authority…
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Cookie Cutter Composition
In Kindergarten everyone is told to be themselves. Little by little until college that lesson is revealed to have been a lie.
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Misplaced authority
Authority is like dirty laundry; so long as you leave it in the vicinity of your space, people won’t walk all over it or throw it out.
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Writing Ours But Not Ours
Whether we maintain our own authority or are influenced by that of others, we as writers and students must be our own authority.