between being a professor and a writing specialist for graduate students
it's wild how people think my professional mandate is to make students of color *sound* like white people on paper
and i get results by doing the literal *opposite*
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@blkstarseed 100%! Communication is so much more than just about what prescriptivists think is the most “correct” language and I wish more people respected that
strictest prof I ever had in terms of docking points for “non standard” grammar & phrasing was, oddly, my Asian American experience class. Very strange to write an essay on discrimination in schools and loose points for saying which when it should have been that…
