academic writing

So my paper will be discussing this concept of academic writing. After reading for Dr. Sullivan's class and writing my journal for that class, I brought up some interesting things i think.

"There is no such thing as simplifying power, because as I converge in academic writing, the vernacular community I belong to has no voice and there are conventions and rules that I must abide to. Social power governs all, and I can only enjoy one community membership at a time, and that is the truth. The label that I fall under is a simplification of who I am, but power can never be simplified without resistance; I am an outsider trying to fit one foot in. "

"In being critical, it is ironic how members who have become part of the dominant culture within academics propose diversity within academic writing, while the subordinate culture within academics enforces upholding normative styles of writing. It is known scholars such as Zamel, who teaches in a predominately Anglo community that can perhaps envision the merging of separate communities within academic writing. However, I contest that there is nothing preventing one from moving freely between vernacular communities and academic discourses, because minoroities are still marginalized, status and power still exist, and stereotypes exert dominance."

"My two conflicting identities that I rarely attempt to infuse within academic writing goes against the robotic and political norms of how to write and what to write about, and to avoid discrimination or being labeled as a “minority” or multilingual writer, I situate and play the language game within the dominant community. I have been taught that if I practice the language and writings of the educational community, that perhaps I would fit in within the conventions of that circle. Is there such a thing as the allusion of maintaining membership, value, and ideologies within multiple communities? Has identity really become decentered? "