Writing about Writing

Newcomers try to belong by matching the people in the community around them. People feel like they belong when people talk to them and are able to understand their thoughts and ideas. People might not want to participate in their community because they do not like the ideas and values the community stands for. I can not really think of a person who lost their authority by what they did, but I can think of people who lost the respect of their peers because they said something. It's probably a fairly common occurrence, but you have high respect for a person, and then in a quick moment, they say something and you lose respect for them very quickly. "Do you believe we use language choices unconsciously?" I believe that is true. We tend to do a lot of stuff unconsciously once it is built into us. It is the same with language because we start with a goal to fit in and make our language change to account for that. After that change, we tend to speak with that language type ...

He began his piece by writing about bitterwaitress.com. This is a website that had been recently started as a way for food service employees to chat and share their different stories from the workplace. This was a way for them communicate with their different social and work languages. A website like this could be considered a tool for an activity system in the workplace. One stereotyped activity I have participated in would be the band program at school. A multiliteracy might be considered the words and ideas we use while reading and using music. When people listen in to what we would be talking about or discussing they might be confused by what we mean and the words we were using. In that thought, she was talking about being clueless to all the words and phrases used to talk about different aspects of hospital life. This is similar to every different activity that people take part of. Whether they think of it or not, there is always a specialized language that people take par...