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= Collaborative Study Guide =

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You will annotate 10 concepts, chosen from the assigned chapters in Rowe and Levine, each week. Annotations are to be contributed to the wiki study guide. The concepts you choose to annotate should be spread out among the assigned chapters for each week. Annotations will include:

--a brief definition (your own, a paraphrase or a quotation)

--a text-to-self connection, text-to-text connection, a text-to-world connection or a text-practice connection.

--an example including a relevant link to media, e.g., a video, a song, a poem. Connections may also be provided in the form of a metaphor, a graphic organizer, an image.

--a citation of the source/s of the definition and examples if either comes from somewhere other than your own personal experience/knowledge. Use APA citation conventions (as an in-text citation. Use the Purdue Online Writing Center ( [] ) or lose credit oh no! FYI: wikispaces does not do hanging indents, so don't worry about those. Terms need to be considered within the context of linguistics, as described in Rowe and Levine, not in the everyday sense of the word. Students may choose which concepts to annotate; more than one student may annotate the same concept. Remember, however, that all concepts in the Rowe and Levine chapters are fair game for the Focused Responses: read and study all assigned reading. This is a collaborative effort: the more concepts that are annotated in the study guide, the smarter everyone is. If twelve people annotate the same concept, the learning value of the study guide will be reduced. Be sure to include your name and the date to your Study Guide entries.

Example of a Collaborative Study Guide entry: Ethnocentrism (Rowe and Levine, Chapter 1) “Linguistic enthnocentrism means believing that one’s own cultural speech style is the best and that others are inferior. For example, as a young child, I was sent to speech therapy because I pronounced ‘wash’ as ‘warsh’;

The entry above would earn the full four points for:

The following youtube excerpt from the video American Tongues shows a variety of speakers exhibiting linguistic ethnocentrism vis-a-vis several U.S. dialects [] ||
 * 1) annotating the concept with a definition; Linguistic enthnocentrism means believing that one’s own cultural speech style is the best and that others are inferior. ||
 * 2) a text-to- ? (in this case a text-to-self) connection; . . . as a young child, I was sent to speech therapy because I pronounced ‘wash’ as ‘warsh’; my mother grew up in Appalachia and I learned to pronounce ‘wash’ this way from her. Apparently, at that time, in western New York schools, this dialect was considered pathological, and this is an example of linguistic ethnocentrism. ||
 * 3) for providing an annotated, relevant media link;
 * 4) for reference (the link itself is enough in this case) ||

Collaborative Study Guide checklist for each concept chosen:
 * Definition 1 pt **
 * Example 1 pt **
 * Media link or file 1 pt **
 * APA citation (as if on a reference list) 1 pt **