Anzaldua Blog Response #2

The difference about an academic essay and Anzaldua essay is that In an academic essay includes you to use quotes, paraphrasing, and to state the thesis and the main idea of the text. In her essay she provides her own opinions also she provides a lot of good information she has collected over the pass years of experience she has lived through. She has a lot of short stories abut her childhood and how language has changed in her time to what it is now. Anzaldua essay also make you question, about how language has been evolving with each new generation. In contrast to an academic essay you state what you learned about a reading, you do not go off in to your personal stories. Also in an academic essay you paraphrase everything you read Anzaldua does some what paraphrase some of the Mexican proverb she use sin her text. Anzaldua makes you question, in her essay she want you to think to go into her reading and really relate to it. Anzaldua writes in a way to prove to the reader that she is comfortable writing in the language she was brought with, which was Chicano Spanish. It makes it different from a Formal essay because it does lack some of the techniques you would usually follow when writing a traditional essay. I think what Anzaldua is trying to accomplish with this essay is to really get the reader to understand that she is proud of where she came from and how she has let her language shape her to who she is. “ identity is the essential core of who we are as individuals, the conscious experience of the self inside”(p46).