There are a few writers that believe that if you are interested in what they write, one should be open to learning the style that they are writing in even if that means learning a different culture or dialect. Also a small percentage of students and teachers realize that as students, you have the right to express yourselves in whatever way you’re comfortable while writing formal essays. However, I believe that if writers expect their audience to understand their essay and in return receive a respectable grade from a professor, one should be capable of writing a formal essay in Academic Standard English. Having the ability to write in Standard Academic English will not only benefit students at a collegiate level, but also in their professional life.
For example, when people as customers have an issue with the service provided at their local grocery store, one might ask to speak to the supervisor looking for a solution for the poor customer service. When the …show more content…
In “How To Tame a Wild Tongue” she gives in-depth detail on how as a society her identity was being shunned, even though she was outspoken and strong it was not until she realized that in order to communicate with different people from different walks of life she was going to need to code switch regularly. On how to tame a wild tongue, Gloria remarks “how do you tame a wild tongue, train it to be quiet,” (Anzaldua 143) she thinks of this while getting some teeth fixed at the dentist, because she literally had a wild tongue. Even though I can relate to Gloria’s essay, and I was able to understand her essay in which she writes in standard academic English and in different dialects of Spanish; I strongly feel that a higher percentage of people reading this essay would find it challenging to