At the beginning of this project, in Two Key Questions about Standard Written English (5.1), you were asked these questions:Does the requirement that students write in Standard Written English make it harder for students who have grown up using a different version of English to succeed in college writing courses?If colleges don’t help students learn to write in Standard Written English, will it be harder for them to succeed in the American workplace?Talk about the perfect “rock and a hard place.” If the college requires all students to master Standard Written English, it is making success less likely for African American students, but if the college doesn’t help those students to master Standard Written English, it is not preparing them to succeed in the real world. Luckily, it is not necessary to choose between these two opposite solutions. You have been reading and thinking about positions that are not completely at either extreme, but somewhere in between: solutions like code swi
