15: There is One Correct Way of Writing and Speaking, by Anjali Pattanayak

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "There is One Correct Way of Writing and Speaking" by Anjali Pattanayak (@ArPattanayak). It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Chapter keywords: African American Vernacular, cultural rhetorics, Ebonics, non-standard dialect, rhetorical genre studies, writing and class

Anjali Pattanayak is working towards an Ed.D. degree in educational leadership from Edgewood College. She's also served as the Academic Enrichment program coordinator for the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, and has run programs that help underrepresented students transition into their first year of college to support retention and matriculation. She has spent over five years doing outreach work with under-represented youth as they transition to college. She has taught both first-year composition and first-year experience classes. You can follow her on Twitter @lalaith_feanaro or @arpattanayak.

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