Lecture on Teenage Writing

PROFESSOR WILL LECTURE ON HOW TEENAGE GIRLS USE WRITING
     COLUMBUS -- The letters, notes and diaries written by
teenagers about their everyday life can be a useful resource for
creative problem-solving.
     Amy Shuman, associate professor of English at The Ohio State
University, will deliver a free, public lecture on this topic on
Thursday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m. at Ohio State's Black Studies
Community Extension Center, 905 Mt. Vernon Ave.
     The title of Shuman's lecture is "Get Outta My Face:
Everyday Uses of Writing Among African-American Teenage Girls."
     Shuman studied the uses of everyday writing in an inner-city
school attended by African-American, Puerto Rican-American and
Anglo-American students.  She will discuss the students' reaction
to newspaper reports about racial violence at the school
following an incident between two African-American girls.  She
will compare the letters that students wrote to the newspaper
with other writing and stories about fights at the school.
     At the heart of these forms of communication is a powerful
adolescent moral system for determining who has the right to talk
about whom, according to Shuman.  This moral system can lead to
either violence or willingness to work toward a greater good.
The stories, told and written, about life in the neighborhood and
school may be used as a resource for creative problem-solving.
     This lecture is the last in a series which commemorates the
25th anniversary of Ohio State's College of Humanities.  For more
information on the lecture, contact Gail Summerhill in the
College of Humanities at 292-1882.
                                
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