Gerald Graff Essay

emphasizes the benefits of community college before attending a university. “The philosophy of the community college and I have been to two of them, is one that unconditionally allows its student to begin.” At the same time, “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff, he argues that people that are labeled as “street smart” should receive an education because their abilities can be used to their advantage in the classroom. People who are considered to be street smart feel that they don’t have the…

Reality.” They Say/I Say with Readings. 2nd ed. Eds. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. 564-567. Print. Thomas, Cal. “Is The American Dream Over?” They Say/I Say with Readings. 2nd ed. Eds. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. 568-570. Print. King, Brandon. “The American Dream: Dead, Alive, or on Hold?” They Say/I Say with Readings. 2nd ed. Eds. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. NY:…

Say/ I Say: The Move That Mattes in Academic Writing, there are examples of templates to use in academic writing given in the introduction. The templates are designed to express and present a writer’s ideas in a clear and orderly way. The authors, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, argue that in order to have an effective piece of academic writing you must not only state your own ideas, but to present conflicting ideas and respond to them with your own thoughts. The templates offer a way to…

they are able to learn what they want and use that information however they please. Conversely others believe the freedom to make fun of the intelligent and face little backlash is what they should pursue in their quest for the American Dream. In Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism” he speaks of how when he was a child, he was worried to ever show how smart he was in fear that the neighborhood kids would beat him up. Because of this he put up a facade that made him look just like the brutish…

For many the American Dream is just that, a dream. It is almost inconceivable to some people that they could ever reach the goal of being successful and comfortable in the United States, but that has never stopped anyone from trying their hardest to achieve this feat. For some though that goal is not as unattainable as it is for others and the reason for this is because there is no set definition of the American Dream. The meaning of the American Dream varies for each person and therefore the…

first day of class, the hype about being back on educational territory goes down. Teachers and school professionals should stop and ask themselves, why their students seem uninterested in learning? That is exactly what Gerald Graff, a professor at the University of Illinois did. What Graff realized is that “Intellectualism” can be taught to students through more than just books. He argued that by allowing students to use their personal interest will not only spark an interest in learning, but…

instead of the concepts outside a basic education. Students are led to believe that the education you receive in school is to prepare themselves and succeed in the modern-day workplace. Using the works of Gary Gutting, “What is college for”, and Gerald Graff, “Hidden Intellectualism”, both writings…

was forced to read by school or my parents. In high school, that was my heyday of reading career because I read majority of books in my whole life during high school, however, as I am looking back right now I cannot think of any summary of books. Gerald Graff who wrote a book called “Disliking Books at an Early Age” talks about a little Jew boy who does not like to read only he read necessary effective to his grades which result when he got to college, he could not still correlate to the…

language, age, gender or cultural barrier. Do all these conflicts in education help one to gain knowledge or are we loosing the essence of concept which is presented to us? In “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, Gerald Graff discuss the problems college students face today in America. As Gerald says, “students have become cynical relatives who care less about convictions than about grades and…

M1 Draft Assignment In recent years the socioeconomic classes have taken a huge toll on our education system at all levels. It starts at the young age of students who have trouble learning because every student is different and it takes a vast amount of strategies to help each student learn, but our schools are failing to do that. Which then leads us to the issue of “street smart” vs. “book smarts”. Which one is more valuable? Is one more valuable than the other? Our social class plays a huge…