AN OPEN LETTER:
MY SURVEY OF STUDENT ENGLISH LITERACIES

Letters of introduction offer insight into students as writers and students as people.

DEFINING ENGLISH LITERACIES

I understand English literacies to be the skills students use to produce meaning and make meaning of language. My questions to students access attitudes and approaches to language.

INFORMATION I OFFER ABOUT MYSELF

• "Whence the authority of dictionary-makers to decide what's OK and what isn't? Nobody elected them, after all." - David Foster Wallace
• Tweets that are powerful/influential or made me laugh
• Films, television shows, and music I enjoy for dialogue and lyrics

QUESTIONS TO STUDENTS

• "What's a word that's not in the dictionary, but you really think should be in there? It can be explicit."
• "What are some things you read and wrote yesterday?"
• "Who is a musical artist that you are really into right now? Do you consider that artist a poet or a writer?"