What is invention?
- research on AAVE, its uses and rhetoric/gramatical features
- research previously written information on this topic by scholars
- Smitherman, Powell, Rickford
- find websites that use and discuss AAVE, blackplanet.com
What is being invented?
- how do African Americans express themselves in different situations online
- BlackPlanet allows them to express who they really are
- African American accessibility to the internet and digital space
- interaction with others let them know they are not alone
What is being arranged?
- the internet to AAVE
- AAVE to the "underground"
- the "underground" to the digital divide
- the digital divide to Blackplanet.com
- Blackplanet.com to feedback from peers
- feedback from peers to rhetoric features
- rhetoric features to allowing blacks to use their own language
What is arrangement?
- example of what is not used much
- general to specific
- specific problem
- problem to solution
- example of solution
- general to specific
- what should be done
What is being revised?
- allow blacks to use their own language
- allow greater access to the internet
- let them explore their culture
- they need an outlet to be themselves
- bridge the gap of the digital divide
What is revision?
- examples of real life and how blacks can express themselves
- examples of specific AAVE language
- quotes from scholars, many resources
- solution to bridge the gap
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