journal 9

The writer, Katrina Powell, asks the question “I ask in what ways do writers represent their selves as they situate themselves within an activity system?”. She wants to know exactly how writers in different educational systems ,whether it be secular or religious, express and represent themselves. The writer “It draws on material from a yearlong study of students, teachers, and administrators, all participants within a larger activity system.”. In other words she collects material from all students, teachers, and administrators within different types of learning institutions. I see my peers using many different forms of self-representation. All are trying to stand out from the crowd. Some use very extravagant writing styles trying to depict themselves as being of a more intellectual type, others use more of a poetic genre of self-representation which depicts a more artful and creative self-representation, while others are more concise and write to the point showing an idea of ones self that extrudes efficiency and precision.