Author: Wonderful Faison

I am a current PhD student in the Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures program at Michigan State University. My research centers on African American Language, African American Rhetorics, Cultural Rhetorics, and Queer Rhetorics.

When I decided, in high school, that I wanted to become an English teacher, I assumed English was about grammar. Particularly, I assumed English was about the use of proper grammar in writing. Of course, I did not want to be an English teacher because I was a Grammar Rant; I wanted to become an English teacher because I wanted, I needed African Americans to “write better.” I saw the struggles of my African American peers, and the lack of motivation they had for writing. I also heard how they spoke outside ­ and sometimes inside ­ the classroom. They…

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