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Marissa Rocha
STACC English 1A
Professor Mitchel-Wagner f
March 12, 2015
Annotated Bib
Dweck, Carol. Praising for Effort, Not Intelligence Educational Leadership 65 (2007): 34-39.
Print.
In this article Carol Dweck, explains the effects of praising a child on intelligence rather than on
effort. She brings in her study of fixed and growth mind set to play. She states, That the impact
of praise is closely linked to how students view intellectual ability, and they tend to hold one of
two beliefs: Intelligence is a fixed trait and Intelligence can be improved. She also believes that
process praise keeps students focus.
Dweck, Carol. "The Perils and Promises of Praises." Print.
In this article Carol Dweck introduces the fixed and growth mind set. The Fixed mind set being
that youre afraid of failing and just decide to give up. Giving an excuse like, I dont need to do
this I already know what shes talking about. Or they dont want to look like they are trying
were as a growth mind set is a need to grow. The growth mind set the need to grow, to pick your
brain and think. Growth mind set is a mindset that youre not afraid to grow and learn that youre
not afraid of failure.
Hooks, Bell. Critical Thinking Print.
This article explains, the roundabout talk of critical thinking. Critical thinking is when you think
outside the box. When you think about more than one scenarios, when you think about
connecting not to just the problem but to what you experienced. Hooks states, childrens passion

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for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity
and obedience only. He explains that our generation just dont like thinking and when we do
think we dont think about more.
Elbow, Peter. Freewriting Center for Learning, Teaching, Communication, and Research
Peter Elbow explain, in the article above about freewriting and what its there for which is to
improve are writing. Freewriting is place where you can put your ideas without getting feedback
from a reader, Of course the feedback helps but its just for you to learn to put your ideas down.
Swales, John. The concept of discourse Community. English in Academic. 1990. 21-32. Print
In The concept of Discourse Community Swales brings about the differences between a speech
community and discourse community. He argues the differences between both communities and
to determine if a group is a discourse community. He list the six characteristics that every
discourse community should possesses:
1. A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals.
2. A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members.
3. A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide
information and feedback.
4. A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the
community furtherance of its aims.
5. In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has acquired some specific lexis.
6. A discourse community has a threshold level of members with suitable degree of
relevant and discoursal expertise.
Wardle, Elizabeth. Identify, Authority, and Learning to write in New Workplaces Writing
about writing; a college reader 5.2 (2004): Web.

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In Identify, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces Elizabeth Wardle, explains
how to identify and authority issues for workers in new environment. Wardle argues that identify
and authority can affect ones possessions in a new workplace. Along with miscommunication
with the two can lead to one being viewed as a nucience and stress.
John, Ann M. Discourse communities and communities of Practice: Membership, Conflict, and
Diversity Developing Academic Literacies (1997): 51-70. Print.
In this article Ann M. Johns talks about the difficulties that discourse community have within
themselves. She also talks about the difficulties of trying to juggle many different discourse
communities in our lives. That in order to fully descend into a community we have to drop those
communities we are in and even give up are beliefs in order to be fully dedicated to the discourse
community of are choice.
Dr. Davis, Sampson, George Jenkins, and Remeck Hunt. The Pact. New York: Penguin
Group, 2002. Print.
The Pact is about three doctors, and the struggles they had to reach their goal. Its an
inspirational story and relates to many students struggling now and dont have the confidence to
continue their studies. The three doctors were all living in bad parts of Newark. They had to
struggle with hanging out with the wrong crowd. Having parents that didnt know how to read
along with single mothers and drug addict families. They explain the difficulties they had in
order to stay on track and how many people believed in them along with them being able to
create The Three Doctor foundation.
The Freedom Writers Diary. New York: Broadway Books, 1999. Print
The Freedom Writers diary is about a group a students that teachers didnt believe in any more.
They were students of all races Mexican, African American, white, and Asian. They all came

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together even with all their problems against each other with being from different gangs and
them all disliking each other. Than walks in Mrs. Erin Gurwell, a teacher that believed in her
students. She was trying to give those students that the teachers had given up on a long time ago
a chance and then they started writing their problem in a journal and the rest is history.
Sijtsema, Jelle J. Friendship selection and influence in bullying and defending: Effects of moral
Disengagement Developmental Phycology. (2014): Web.
Talking about how friendship can be a good type of peer pressure. How you are always looking
to fit into society or your group of friends that you sucrose to peer pressure. And in this article
that what the author talks about the result of a friendship can be the worst form of peer pressure.
Grande, Reyna. The Distance Between Us. New York: Washington Square Press, 2012. Print.
The Distance Between Us is about a Pasadena City College Graduate and her life and goals.
Reyna Grande, explains what she went through and the differences that America is to were she
lived in Mexico. She explains of her father and mother leaving her and her two siblings to their
grandmother that disliked them. Of them having to grow up poor and the things they had to avoid
to stay safe and alive.
Jin, Ha. Arrival. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martins,
2012. Print.
This article is about an Asian man coming to America and having to cope with leaving his wife
and child in china and adjusting to America. This story in the being was thought out to be about
adjusting to an American school when in reality it is about working hard to accomplish a goal
you set out to do.
Weck, Carol. "The Perils and Promises of Praises." Print.

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This article talks about the different mid-sets we have. Like if we have a positive mindset we can
accomplish anything or if we have a fixed mindset thinking we are too good for it and wont
complete the work because were scared. She talks about doing research do studies in order to
prove her discovery.
Stockett, Kathryn. The Help. New York: Penguin Group, 2009. Print.
The Help is about a white women (Mrs. Skeeter) living in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962. Where
there are still colored maids and segregation. Mrs. Skeeter is writing a column about
housekeeping and doesnt know the first thing about housekeeping so she enlist the help of one
of her friends maids, Ailieen. When her and Aibileen start getting a little comfortable, Aibileen
tells her that her son that had passed was a writer and that he was writing about what life is like
for a black man in 1962. When Skeeter hears this she gets an idea to continue Aibileens sons
story and write about being a black maid.
Wikipedia Foundation. Wikipedia. WF, 2015. Web. 10 Feb. 2015.
Segregation is separation of humans into racial groups in daily life. It may apply to activities
such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a public toilet, attending
school, going to the movies, riding on a bus, or in the rental or purchase of a home. Segregation
is what we learned in school for as long as we can remember and The Help brought back that
issue and what got them through with the civil rights act was Martin Luther King Jr.
Rodriguez, Richard. Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood. The Writers Presence:
A Pool of Readings. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martins, 2012. Print.
About a young man that immigrated to the united states with his parents and two siblings. They
were of Spanish speaking and know not a lick of English. Living in America changed him he

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started speaking less and less Spanish to the point when his relatives come over he doesnt know
what is being said and getting made fun of because he doesnt know his foreign tongue.
Plato. The Allegory of the Cave: A Study in the Discovery and Application of Good Republic.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974. 215-26. Print.
In this article one of the more difficult reads this semester, it was all about facing reality. Plato
speaks in rittles and you will have to read it more than once but what he is trying to say is can we
face reality. And how we start fresh when we see the world through a different aspect than
everyone else. Can we face reality when we start fresh with no lies and that is what hes really
asking with all his confusing writings?
Merriweather, Lisa R., Talmadge C. Guy and Elaine Manglitz. Who Can Speak for
Whom?: Using Counter-Storytelling to Challenge Racial Hegemony.
Shows the different storytellings that can be used. Along with racial discrimination. They
write three different stories with three people being all types of different situation and being
discriminated because of race.
Jim Crows Laws- Separate Is Not Equal. American History. 2000. Web
Shows us some of the laws the blacks faced until Martian Luther King and his civil movement.
The separate bathrooms, restaurants and places of work. They show the injustice the colored
community had to go thorough and the hardships they had to face every day.
Lopez, Maria. Personal Interview. 26 Feb. 2015
This interview was with a nurse with more than 20 years experience. She answered some
questions I had about this profession along with some others that didnt pertain to the profession,
but rather if she knew she picked the right career and how. To know what I would have looked
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University of Groningen. American History. GMW, 2012. Web. 05 Mar. 2015.
Martin Luther King Jr. I Have A Dream speech was just that. It was his dream to see that his
people were free. To get the same equal right that whites have. In order to be equal he needed to
be heard and that were this comes in.
Rios, Veronica. Personal Interview. 28 Feb.2015
This interview was with a nursing student who has had a dream to become a nurse since she was
a little girl. She was always helping others and enjoyed doing. When asked why she wanted to
become a nurse and not a doctor her answer was that she didnt think she will feel satisfied as a
doctor. That as a nurse she feels shes more connected and two she also started as a candy striper
and knows how it feels to be able to help more than the doctors.
Summers, Sandy and Harry Jacobs Summers. Saving Lives: Why the Medias Portrayal of
Nurses Puts Us All At Risk. New York: Kaplan, 2009. Print.
This book helps us discover the truth about nursing and what its really like which is not like how
the movies and TV shows show us. But thats not all this book is here to show us it to help future
nurses like some of my family and friends of what nurses do. This book does not only help
nurses and future nurses but also those in that profession and going into that profession families
understand their profession. Along with giving more of an appreciation to what nurses do and go
through on a daily basis.
Gordon, Suzanne. Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes
and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care. New York: Cornell University
Press, 2006. Print.
Helping to bring awareness to the nursing profession. Gordon goes into the reason why nurses
are dropping the major or the job. She examines health care cost cutting and hospital restricting

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undermine the working conditions. She also explains the class and status divisions within the
profession that hinder a much needed defense of bedside nursing.
At Your Cervix. BlogSpot. 2013. Web. 31 Dec. 2013.
At Your Cervix writes about being a Labor, delivery nurse and a midwife. Explains what they go
through and of what they do. Along with what happened on that specific day at work and what
theyre going through in there every day life.
Gordon, Suzanne. What Do Nurses Really Do?. WebMD LLC, 2015. Web
This article is about Suzanne going more in depth of what nurses really do. We all assume that
nurses do nothing but become a robot when the doctor tells them to do something but we all have
our own opinions. Gordon has her own views on what nurses do like using their considerable
knowledge, they protect patients from risks and consequences of illness, disability, and infirmity,
as well as from the risks and consequences of the treatment illness. In Gordons opinion nurses
save lives, protect complications, prevent suffering, and save money.
How Do I Know If I Want to Become a Nurse?. Santa Monica College 2009. Web.
Explains the steps and the research on what it takes to be a nurse if you are interested in that
career field. Informs you of what a nurse is and what there is to look forward to and by them
showing you the traits you need to have in order to be a nurse to have patients because youre
going to have sick patients, dying patients and just plain mad at the world patients. They show
you the tools you might use in the field along with the knowledge and skills youll need. The
article also informs you of the wage and employment trend and the areas of specialties, ect.
O*NET. American Job Center, 2010. Web.

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This web site helps or better yet gives us a better perception on what we can expect from nursing
or any job really. They show us a more detailed version of what to expect from this job. Along
with showing us some job listings to make it easier for us to find the job of are dream.
Pipher, Mary. Writing To Change the World. New York: Penguin Group, 2006. Print.
There is two section we were to read the introduction and What we alone can say, In the
introduction section she urges us to be confident, bold, and honest along with looking for your
own voice in the writing world. In the second section she shows us how to connect to different
things like connecting to other books, art and propaganda. She explains if we want to write go
for it take action on what you feel so passionate about she proves to us that writing can change
the world. Whither its now or later in the future but what you write can change somebodies life.
Lam, Andrew. East Eats West. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2010. Print
Andrew Lam and his family exiled from Vietnam during the war. He was granted a do-over in
life but also granted a curse that day he came to America. He had to start over learn everything
over again, in a since he was reborn into America. He shows us his life and how he was able to
conquer America. To be able to stand up to his parents and not be the obedient child his sister
and brother are, to follow his own dream into journalism when his family was so against it.
Tan, Amy. Mother Tounge. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings Boston: Bedford/ St.
Martins, 2012. Print.
This article, is about Amy coming to terms about America and her mother. Americans treated
Tans mother badly because she couldnt speak proper English so Americans wrote her off and
treated her badly; like she didnt matter. She shows us an example of when her mother went to
the doctors and how they said the lost her test and she would have to come back with no real
emotion to her; and when Tan came to talk to them they miraculously come up with the test and

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that was because she was able to talk like them. She was able to come to terms with her mothers
language and decide to write books, papers, and or articles so people like her mother in other
words immigrants who can only speak broken English to be able to understand.
Brooks, David. People Like Us. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings Boston:
Bedford/St. Martins, 2012. Print.
Brooks explains to us that no one really cares about diversity. He discusses that we dont really
know what diversity is. We may think we are diversed but were not were segregated. Segregation
and diversity are two very different things and Brooks opens up are eyes and are minds to whats
really going on; of what we thought to be diversity but is truly just segregation.
Hayes, Timothy. Down With the Sickness: Homesickness. Ogden Campus Life News, 2015.
Web. 07 Apr. 2015.
This article, talks about trying to deal with home sickness and how it might be a problem. If it
was being said this article can be just how we get home sick in the first place.
Ephron, Nora. The Boston Photographs. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings
Boston: Bedford/ St. Martins, 2012. Print.
This article is about a tragic event in Boston, a fire that took lives and photographer that was able
to capture the tragic event. She went into depth about how said photographer felt after talking to
his editors about how they provide the pictures and how they were going to be able to format it
to get there paper to sell more.
Morris, Errol. Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings
Boston: Bedford/ St. Martins, 2012. Print.
This essay it to inform you of how pictures can be deceiving. That not all pictures can truly speak
a thousand words like we are informed. Morris trys to prove that although pictures dont speak a

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thousand words there still some truth about paintings. There is and that isnt only to speak the
truth but to also give us away to show us how to express feelings.
Zinn, Howard. Stories Hollywood Never Tells. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings
Boston: Bedford/ St. Martins, 2012. Print.
This article is about Hollywood not doing movies of real life events and if they do they dont
stay to the truth. The truth of the matter is that Hollywood tells stories that can sell; they get to as
close to the event but not close enough. And if thats not enough than when they do get the truth
they have to cut scene of the actual events in order to make the movie fit in with Hollywood
movies.
Epstein, Joseph. The Perpetual Adolescent. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings
Boston: Bedford/ St. Martins, 2012. Print.
Goldberg, Natalie. First Thoughts. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within.
Shambhala, 1986. Print.
Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Reference. 7th ed. N.p.: Bedford/St. Martin's Custom, 2013. Print.
Iyer, Pico. The Inner Climate. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings. Boston: Bedford/
St. Martins, 2012. Print.
Elbow, Peter. "Freewriting." 1973. Print.
Mengestu, Dinaw. Home at Last. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings. Boston:
Bedford/ St. Martins, 2012. Print.
Schwartz, Barry. The Tyranny of Choice. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings. Boston:
Bedford/ St. Martins, 2012. Print.
Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings. Boston:
Bedford/ St. Martins, 2012. Print.

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Slater, Lauren. The Trouble with Self-Esteem. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings.
Boston: Bedford/ St. Martins, 2012. Print.
Taylor Gatto, John. Against School. The Writers Presence: A Pool of Readings. Boston:
Bedford/ St. Martins, 2012. Print.