ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a close examination of dialogue in face-to-face talk. It explores the response that some of people may not be comfortable discussing. The example of talk that opens the chapter is situated within a face-to-face book club discussion. It reviews a contrastive analysis of two excerpts from the writing from Janice and Karen Hankins in response to Lisa Delpit's "The Silenced Dialogue". The chapter presents the conversation between Mary Ann, Ted, Janice, and Krissy to more deeply explore how their talk crosses into or avoids hot lava, in particular, around the issue of race. Yet in Book Logs or other reflective responses, traditional academic writing is still important. The chapter examines academic writing from students around a particular text and shows what people can learn from the students' close reading and academic reflective writing. It concludes with further examples of students reflecting on and through multimodal compositions.
