This is an exercise that I originally experienced in a professional development workshop for writing instructors. Before we began discussing the experiences of multilingual students in college composition courses, the workshop leaders gave us this prompt: “Write one paragraph about
Reading: Marjorie Agosin’s “Always Living in Spanish” and “English”
Marjorie Agosin is a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College as well as an essayist, poet, and human rights activist. In the essay “Always Living in Spanish,” translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman, and the poem “English,” translated by Monic Bruno, Agosin
Assignment: Discourse Community Translation
This is an assignment based on June Jordan’s “Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan”, a translingual piece about Black English in academic settings. In that article, she writes about teaching Alice Walker’s The Color