Introduction

In this section, I provide an illustrative set of LAs written by students in my courses. We can read and appreciate them for their craft and their human interest. We see students from different cultural and geographical backgrounds wrestling with the demands of different languages for representing their identities and interests. However, teachers and students can analyze these essays closely for learning purposes. With that objective in mind, I offer a few questions for exploration while reading these essays. They can generate useful discussion and learning. These questions draw from the analytical constructs and frameworks introduced in the previous section.