Comparision Fan Shen Article And Barbara Mellix Article

Summary of “The Classroom and Wider Culture” by Fan Shen

Writing style or technique can reflect the unity of the culture and beauty. People around the world grow up with different backgrounds, beliefs, and mutual understanding and alternative learning environment, is difficult to adapt to it, because it is Fan Shen. Shen's article said that "the classroom and the wider culture: a key to learning English composition," identity, he explained, what kind of adjustments, from his Chinese culture, writing the sense of "Western" culture. He describes it as a step by step process to write the way Western culture, and the use of the word "I" often (Baepler, Paul, pp. 90-111). It is a little culture shock him, because his writing style is more cultural description, and include the word 'we' over 'I'. On Shen's past writing experience, he said, "'I' word has been identified with another" bad "words," individualism "in China, which has become a synonym for selfishness". In fact, China to focus on their culture as a whole, it is considered disrespectful and dishonest use of 'I', because this is a person designated for the long-term. They believe that "we" refers to everyone covered, "I" and Western culture, the focus of intense and earnest efforts to promote individualism, only to hear your voice, not your culture. Although Shen always taught to write, including each person's words, not just himself, he finally got more comfortable to use in his writing because he wanted to achieve success in the Western culture of "me." Shen introduce their two "parts" in his writing, his "English self" and his "Chinese self." He explained that he did not clearly forgotten his Chinese culture, but his compromise with it, said, in a sense, to create a self-coordination in English and English writing in the required new value of my old culture values ??in a way, without losing the old". Thus, Shen's research focuses on the first paper of his Chinese self and self in English, need to adopt a new identity the difference between the both (Baepler, Paul, pp. 90-111).

Summary of “From Outside, In” by Barbara Mellix

Mellix continue northward shift to the big city, she aspires to become a better writer, she describes her experience and interpretation. In Pittsburgh, she was exposed to extensive use of the two dialects, and time, she learned to manage them easily regardless of the ...