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Habits Of Mind And Framework For Success In Postsecondary Writing

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The Academic Habits of Mind includes four key habits needed to be an effective writer. These four key habits includes a.) Inquiring b) Seeking and valuing complexity c.) Understanding that academic writing is a conversation and d.) Understanding that writing is a process.
To be an efficient writer, one should learn how to make inquiries, we should learn how to observe, ask questions about the things that are not clear to us and also consider other alternatives. We should learn how to reflect on the things that we observe and examine issues from multiple points of view. A lot of people use binary thinking and believes that there is only two sides to an issue however, an issue is open and can be argued. Every single stand on an issue has a reason …show more content…

These habits are curiosity, openness, engagement, creativity, persistence, responsibility, flexibility and metacognition. The four key habits of mind and the habits of mind from the “Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing” have a lot of similarities. The first key habit of mind is inquiry and inquiry is made out of curiosity. We observe something we are curious about and ask questions out of our curiosity. The second key habit of mind is seeking and valuing complexity this also involves curiosity, openness and engagement. This habit of mind includes openness to reflect on what we observe, engagement to examine issues from multiple points of view and curiosity to ask issue based questions. The third key habit of mind to understand that academic writing is a conversation, in connection with the key habits of mind, this involves metacognition, engagement and flexibility. In every conversation whether it is an oral or academic conversation, metacognition and engagement is a must, in a conversation people could have different beliefs and we should learn how to respect and understand other peoples reason on how they came up in believing what they believe in. Flexibility is also needed because after understanding other people’s beliefs we should …show more content…

The story of “Scholarship Boy” is about the story of Rodriguez who is a Mexican decent who moved in America and ended up being very successful in his academics and became a journalist. When Rodriguez first came to America, he was only six years old and was not able to speak English fluently. In his story he showed persistence on how he became successful through his brother and sisters’ achievements—his brother and sisters both excelled in class and were successful in life, openness to new cultural environment, engagement by devoting himself into studying, he stated “Here is a child who cannot forget that his academic success distances him from a life he loved, even from his own memory of himself”, flexibility and metacognition by learning how to blend in into his new environment that is very different from what he is used

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It symbolizes his adjustment from a student who could only imitate to an adult who is now able to recognize the toll his false aspirations took on his family. Hoggart and Rodriguez’s strongest agreement on the scholarship boy’s family hardship is that there is a “loss of balance” (549). Rodriguez begins to subtly stray away from the idea of a “loss of balance” when he admits to the drastic change in the relationship with his family. Rodriguez says that, “school grew more and more attractive to me…I spoke to classmates and teachers more often each day than to family members “ (Rodriguez 550). Rodriguez describes and admits to the feeling school had instilled in him.

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How is this purpose conveyed? The audience for this piece are people who are interested in Rodriguez’s childhood and education and seeing how scholarship children can become successful. The writer’s purpose is to explain why and how he became a scholarship and academically successful in a bilingual household with the family’s main focus on Spanish. This purpose is shown as the writer takes the reader on a journey through his childhood.

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The book has a reflective and educational theme. Rodriguez reflects on his struggle with the English and Spanish languages. In the interim, there was numerous obstacle's life threw at Rodriguez while he was trying to get his education. The message is even though

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“He cannot afford to admire his parents. He permits himself embarrassment at their lack of education” (51). Richard Rodriguez, in overall can be identified as an epitome of the ‘Scholarship boy’, something very exceptional in regardes to self-identity and academic

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Richard Rodriguez’s essay “The Achievement of Desire” opens with a narration of he, himself—the guest speaker who sees himself in a young student at a ghetto classroom. As the essay builds, Richard Rodriguez uses the excerpts extracted from Richard Hoggart’s literature—“The Uses of Literacy” in each subdivision of his essay to explain the typical characteristics of a “scholarship boy”. And later he tells his experience as a student to evaluate Hoggart’s description of a “scholarship boy”. At certain moments in his essay, Rodriguez also fits himself into Hoggart’s version of a “scholarship boy” to justify the temperament of this certain kind of student.

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