Journal Entry 9

1. The writer is trying to find out more about what ways do writers represent their selves as they situate themselves within an activity system.

2. The author collects the data that she needs to answer this question by studying the writing of students in colleges. She would observe classes, interview students and teachers, and analyze the multiple genres of the system. She came to a realization that students encounter many “dialectical contradictions” as various factors pulled them in “different directions”. She calls the way she collected her information as a case study.

3. Peers use many sorts of genres as forms of “self-representation”. Some of them include: writing poems and music, painting art, using cultural backgrounds. This influences what they eat, how they live, how they act, and what their morals and values may be like.