Anzandula Blog Response #2

Anzandula writes her essay in a non-academic format. The technique she uses is different from an academic essay. She starts it with a metaphor instead of giving the reader a sense of the “larger debate” and the thesis. Throughout the body she lists the many languages she speaks and gives some history behind them, and she quotes Spanish sayings and poems. She divides the body in different section each talking about a specific topic such as music, food, Chicano Spanish, Linguistic terrorism, etc, etc. I think she writes her essay this way in order to show that she feels comfortable using the languages she knows to get the attention of the reader instead, and honestly I think she did a great job because once I started reading it I was hooked. This makes it an anti-academic essay because it doesn’t follow the “rules” for a traditional academic essay. “Identity is the essential core of who we are as individuals, the conscious experience of self inside.” –Kaufman, this quote tells me that she writes her essay this way to prove that she knows who she is and that she doesn’t need to follow a certain technique to reach her readers.