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Critically analyze the role that language, reading, writing, or education has played in your life. I specifically encourage you to use the ideas suggested by the readings and videos and consider the linkage between language, power, and identity. In other words, I want you to analyze your experience of language practices (discourses) with particular attention to identity and power. The purpose of this assignment is for you to examine your relationship with language and the power structures that surround it.

• What discourses do you use in different contexts (e.g. in school vs. with friends)?
• How your language practices impact others?
• How other peoples' language practices impact you?
• What are the social consequences (the stakes) of your language practices?
• When, if at all, do you censor yourself (intentionally restrict your language use)?
• How do your language practices relate to other aspects of your identity (race, gender, education, age, class, etc.)?