tony

Solid:
-Generally, your grasp of the importance and flexibility of language (how it comes to us, what qualifies as reading and writing, etc.). The gut feeling I got from this paper was a good one: I felt safe in the author’s hands because he seemed aware of the very realness of reading and writing (it’s not just something that happens in a classroom).
-Your discussion of rap music (p.2-3). This was particularly solid in relation to the rest of your paper because you 1) narrated the activity and then 2) fully thought out its significance to you and other audiences.
-Several of your sentences are pure poetry. “We read our mothers smiles when she rocked us to sleep.” “…and your mother said ‘stop that’ you knew she meant business.” “The public also reads people by their appearance…”
-The way you open up your paper in the concluding paragraph to a new idea (taking a broad definition of reading and writing into the schools). You have articulated a very ope...