English Composition › Section B · Language, identity, and culture › Topic B.1
Language, identity, and the issues around them
The way you speak and write carries your family, your communities and your history with it. Understanding how language, culture and identity connect, and how language has been used to include and exclude, makes you a fairer reader and a more thoughtful writer.
In this topic
- Writing as a mark of a people
- What identity is
- Privilege, discrimination and intersectionality
- What culture is
- How culture is learned
- Voice: identity on the page
- Oppression and language
- Bias and language bias
- Worked example: surface and hidden culture
- Worked example: describing, not ranking
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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