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Many professors are teaching students the basics of academics. Many students do not speak and write like professors. Students have their own primary discourse. Students primary or native discourse is the first discourse students learn. Students are usually advanced in their native discourse, but they struggle when they have to learn the dominant discourse. Students struggle learning the dominant language, because they have to learn all the rules that come along with the discourse. In addition, some students believe learning the dominant discourse mean they are giving up or neglecting their native discourse. However, learning more than one discourse does not mean students have to leave one behind. Therefore, professors should teach college students multiple discourses, so they can evolve as writers.
Lisa Delpit, research associate at Morgan State University and author of “Acquisition of Literate Discourse: Bowing Before the Master?” believe professors who are committed to teaching can make a change in education. Delpit also believe teaching students different writing styles will help them grow as writers. She mention students should not be hopeless when they are not understanding the rules of the dominant discourse. She also claims professors should not feel powerless when they do know how to help their students understand something. She claim students advance or become paralyzed based on their teachers. Students advance when they have a committed and patient professor who makes them work or they become paralyzed when they have a professor who do not challenge their students. For instance, she believe students who are challenged grow as writers, and students who are not proactive will be underdeveloped writers. She goes on to say t...

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... write and interpret text in a way that will be accepted. Overall, Bartholomae believe students who learn the discourse can be accepted in the community, while Harris believe the community was made for professors.
Making students feel accepted into the community will help them grow as writers, because they will know how to establish themselves through writing. In addition, students should be allowed to use their native or primary discourse when they are writing. If students are forced to only use the dominant discourse when they are writing they will give up, because do not want to disregard their native discourse. Professors should allow students decide if they want to use their native discourse or dominant discourse when they are writing. When professors allow students to use their primary or native discourse in their writing students will start to grow as writers.

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