ESSAY PLAN

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ESSAY PLAN

• EED 112 Language as a social practice
• Fran Farthing

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Introduction

• Demonstrate understanding
• Orient reader to essay topic
• Topic sentence
• Complex sentence that sets up aims of essay and
  addresses issues
• How language and literacy practices vary in homes
  and communities
• Introduce key points of essay
• How these differences relate to schooling.

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Paragraph 1

• First key point
• Sociocultural nature of language and literacy
  practices
• Establish and reinforce language as social
  practice
• Refer to variants such as language codes,
  register etc.

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Paragraph 2

• Key point 2
• The nature of literacy practices in the home and
  community
• Variations e.g. where about in the community
  people use different language codes.
• Introduce and explain field, tenor and mode.

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Paragraph 3

• How paragraph 1 and 2 impact schooling
• Role of teach to facilitate such variation
• Judgments passed on childrens sociocultural and
  socioeconomic backgrounds

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Conclusion

• 3 sentences summing up all main points
• Making reference to socio-economic nature of
  language and literacy practices
• How these practices involve home and community
  life and society classes
• The impact these practices have on schooling