Professing Mulitculturalism

I believe that Lu is saying that she wants to make people aware of grabbing and importing and how they depict multiculturalism. Import "meanings, implications and consequences" (pg 487) is something that is available to someone that grabs it. In order for someone to grab it they have to grasp the idea and envision it and then be able to articulate it. Lu wants to explore how to have teaching methods that invite a multicultural approach, specifically to students that have many errors in their writing. She has two major concerns, one is that there is a division between the ways that we approach style in theory and in teaching. Her second concern deals with how teachers of composition feel a division in their different roles; as teachers, students or scholars. I think that there is a connection to this article and Royster's article, this article is a way for people of different backgrounds to be heard. I think that this will give teachers a better understanding of their students work. There are two examples of writers that were questioned on their ability to write. Stein took responsibility for her writing and said that everything she wrote was intended to be written that way. Dreiser on the other hand had other people whom he thought were more educated than he was revise his book, and he took all of their suggestions and changed everything. Dreiser was not confident in his writing due to the fact that he did not have the best experience in college. The difference between Stein and Dreiser was that Stein was past the error phase and had moved into a style phase whereas, Dreiser could not find common ground in grammar, so he was stuck in the error phase. Lu has students read "real" works and then makes them take it apart and see what makes it a good paper. She thinks that this will do three things, one help the student hear colliding voices, then it will urge them to take a position on the voices and last to consider their position in the context of diverse discourses. Lu also has her students read sample writings with errors that they think they can fix easily, and the other is to look for styles that will help the writer negotiate a new position.