The following paragraph shows “or”. This best explains an “or” argument because it shows possibilities, in this case, a possibility for two different outcomes for the same questions. For example, alexander argues that narratives help one learn literacy acquisition. On the other hand, Brandt argues that sponsors change the way they teach to allow the best outcome for each student.
Connecting the two quotes together, they both have a different approach to the larger idea. Being that there are multiple ways someone can learn, and the “correct” way to learn may be different for multiple people. Alexander says how writing narratives help reveal the students, helping them learn in the long run. While Brandt argues how Sponsors have to constantly change and adjust the way they teach because not every student learns the same way. Even though the two have a different argument, they both support the larger idea that there are multiple “correct” ways.
The following paragraph Shows “But”. This best explains a “but” argument because it shows how there’s sometimes exceptions to the normal way of doing something. For example, in the following paragraph, the teacher changes his approach on the assignment to allow it to become more engaging for the students. Rather than taking the normal approach of having them just read a text and write off that, he instead picks a topic that allows the student to be more personal and more spontaneous about what their writing about.
This Quote shows how the teacher purposely chose the topic to be animals simply for the fact that the students wouldn’t lose focus. Also, by him allowing this to happen it made a chain of positive events happen. It allowed the students to be more passionate and focused while doing the assignment and overall allowed them to learn better. Also just by changing up the generic way teachers teach help allow the students to be more successful. Looking back at alexander, she talks about Master and little narratives. For example: “Close examination of student essays shows that when students compose a school-based literacy narrative, they invoke cultural narratives, Including both master narratives of success and other little narratives.” (alexander 614) This goes hand and hand with ericas experience. The idea behind the little narratives is just a different way to learn literacy acquisition compared to how the teacher changed up his ways of teaching to allow more success from the students.
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