"Professing Multiculturalism"

This article discussed the ways in which multiculturalism could be used in teaching composition. I saw this as a way in which a writer may be heard, to connect with Royster's article. I believe this because it will give the teachers a better understanding of their students' writing and it will give people in general a better perception of works from writers that are from various backgrounds. The rhetoric everywhere would be better understood if one knows where the writer was coming from and how things work in the area they come from. In the article it shows how an "educated American" reacts to someone that comments on her work in a bad way and how another writer from a different area gets told his work is bad. It was just because the writer from another area, Dreiser, took on a different style and approach to writing then what one is normally used to in America so they automatically deemed it as a bad piece of work. Students have this issue in their classroom as well.

Students face the same issues at times that most writers face when they were brought up in a different area and present their work to an American. Lu decides that they need a model of what is considered real and compare the students work to that. Have the students perform exercises with "real' works and dissect what makes it a good appear so they can utilize it in their own. Lu termed the approach, "error analysis" they would imitate what they found. Provided to the students was an example of a paper with easy identifiable errors and asks the students how they would fix it. "I look for styles which are also more conducive to my attempt to help the writer to negotiate a new position in relation to the colliding voices active in the scenes of writing" (494). It shows the use of style and the writers own perception of what standard written English is supposed to look like. Also, by sharing the responses it gives the students a variety of ways to modify one error.