danah boyd, "Participating in the Always-On Lifestyle"
They Say/I Say, 121-138
Study Question:
1. In today's reading from They Say/I Say, you read about how academic writing can contain both formal and colloquial language. When does boyd (the lower-case is intentional) blend the academic with the informal? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this? What is the effect of her language choices?
2. Thinking about what we read about writing identities in Understanding Rhetoric, how would you describe the identity that boyd constructs for herself in this piece? How does this construction help her advance her argument?
