WHAT STANDARD WRITTEN NORMS OF ENGLISH DO IN THE CURRENT U.S. COMPOSITION CLASSROOM?
WHAT STANDARD WRITTEN NORMS OF ENGLISH DO IN THE CURRENT U.S. COMPOSITION CLASSROOM?

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the ways in which our conception of Standard Written English can be challenged due to the increasing influx of non-native English speakers, and the effects of globalization on Composition studies. My main line of inquiry will be how the field of Rhetoric and Composition has responded, or eventually can respond to the following research problem: How should participants in college Composition classes handle the tension between the narrow and stable conception of Standard Written English, and the increasing global diversification of the English language?

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