Comp 2000 Journal entry 9 PARTICIPANT & INSTITUATIONAL IDENTITY

1}Through the writers resrearch they are trying to find out more about writers identity as they
represent themselves in various genres of an activity system.
b} The research question that guides their work are. How student writers constructs of self are
reflected in school genres [categories of literary composition] and how their backgrounds,
specific academic dicciplines, and institutional goals affect their constructs.
2} The author collects the data she needs for her research project by analyzing the way student
writers reveal themselves through their writings and interactions with teachers, researchers,
friends, and families at the Catholic College.
3} On Nova university campus and South Plantation High School, I see students heavily
involved in clusters of cliques, with each clique having its own identity. The students want to
have something to associate their identity with, the are either studying together quietly,
some are observing their different styles by the way they are dressed, some are loud,
aggressive, or there are the ones who wants to be looked upon as the intelectuals.