Sample questions

Questions "Why I write" Joan Didion 

1. Why does the author consider writing "aggressive"?

2.  What is the relation that Didion establishes between "the tangible" and "abstract ideas" in terms of "academic writing" and "being a writer"

3.  Why does the author define grammar as something that has "infinite power"?

Questions about "Developing Authority in Student Writing through Written Peer Creitique in the Disciplines"

1. According to the authors, three roles are adopted by students in academic writing: the layperson role, the text processor role and the professional-in-training role. Describe them and say how they relate to the concept of authority in student writing.

2.How do students temper their authorial voice and what are the implications of this proccess?

What are the implications of using the concept of "practices" in the realm of "literacy studies"

Define "Literacy shaming" and illustrate the concept with an example.

BRAKING THE SILENCE:

1.  In situating the experiences the author mentioned four diffrent litreratures, which are pertinent to her project.  Explain one of t hem and tell waht bi it about.

2.  What does the author refer to with the 'Ivory Tower'?

3.  How does she relate this term  'Ivory Tower' with the neoliberal university?