My other writing

My goal with this article was to encourage professors to change their policies and practices to create a more equitable classroom for multilingual students.  I have worked in the writing center with countless students who struggle to meet the expectations of standard English and are regularly punished (in the form of grades and negative feedback) for this aspect of their identity that should be celebrated. This article opens with a story. Stories that encapsulate larger social problems are central to my writing and thinking. In 2021, an article was published that identified an assumption I made in this article: that the students spoke Black vernacular English. At first it was hard to read this justifiable critique, but I quickly came to the conclusion that this is the nature of academic writing: you put your work out there, do the best you can, and others build on it oftentimes by identifying the limitations. Despite this critique, I know that my article had a positive impact based on feedback I received from faculty across the country.