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…
Author: Wonderful Faison
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.