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    1. the public research institution where I teach, reported that they believed that AI is the future of writing.

      How can it become more academically accepted if this is true?

    2. I know this because we asked users about their experiences. In an ongoing study, my colleagues and I polled 133 people who used the Rhetorical Prompting Method for their academic and professional writing:92% reported that it helped them evaluate writing choices before and during their process.75% said that they were able to maintain their authentic voice while using AI assistance.89% responded that it helped them think critically about their writing

      data proof to support his argument

    3. If AI allows students to automate routine cognitive tasks – like information retrieval or ensuring that verb tenses are consistent – it doesn’t mean they’re thinking less. It means their thinking is changing.

      Supports the idea that AI does not make a student "lazy"

    4. So I think it’s important to point out some ways in which AI can actually be a useful tool that enhances, rather than hampers, the writing process.

      What are the ways?

    5. Students who us AI aren't going to magically stop using it, it's helpful for a professor to teach and guide ways to use it as an enhancement tool rather than something damning of the mind and writing process.

    1. Thus, according to state administrators’ estimates, approximately 80% of juvenile offenders with disabilities are being served.

      key percentages of the programs.

    2. Correctional education, which consists of formal educational programs ranging from basic literacy training to postsecondary vocational and university education, is offered in the vast majority of correctional facilities in the United States.

      Main idea and description of what correctional education is.

  2. Jul 2026
    1. Ethnographic studies of community uses of language and literacy have been used to improve instruction in two ways: by modifying instruction to be congruent with local ways of using language, and by involving students themselves in doing, and writing up the results of, ethnographic research in their own communities

      This is super important and the main idea for this topic in my opinion

    2. Even without a fully specified definition of standard English, however, a primary characteristic of any written standard English is the absence of socially stigmatized features (e.g., multiple negation) which are associated with nonstandard English dialects.

      What does this mean?

    3. Other research (Erickson 1984) locates the problem in the micropolitical communicative processes between individuals from different groups. The implication here is that the micropolitical processes reflect more macro ones from the larger society; sociolinguistic differences can either be used to escalate conflict between differing individuals or be put aside in the effort to communicate. For biloquialism to be an effective policy, then, it will have to be supported by a larger social context which respects rather than denigrates linguistic and cultural differences.

      i dont understand much of this, need to clarify further

    4. Standard English is that variant which is generally taught in schools and is regarded as the ‘prestigious’ dialect in many English-speaking societies

      Main idea of text

    5. A third principle involves structuring instructional activities that comprise functional and interactive communication; language that is intended as authentic communication, rather than as an artificial exercise, is more likely to call forth the full range of students' linguistic capabilities and to stimulate them to acquire new ones.

      I like and agree with this principle most

    6. Thus there is considerable opportunity for miscommunication between speakers (and readers and writers) from different groups, based on differences in language structure, language use, and literary practices.

      This has me interested and wondering if this is where code meshing stems from?

    7. The term ‘standard English’ generally refers to the variety of English used by the formally-educated people who are socially, economically, and politically dominant in English-speaking countries.

      Broad meaning of what standard English is and refers to.