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Deborah Brant is a researcher for English Learning & Achievement (CELA). She stated,
citizens reading and writing skills are important to the increasing amount for the exchange of
information, especially to their pursuit of education and status (1-2). Brandt also emphasized that
work places, schools and families are strands that brings together the complex form of literacy
(17), which include both reading and writing. A persons literacy experience such as lessons
taught in school and outside readings can be factors that formulate writing, but an authors
identity is the most significant contribution to the piece.

There are many aspects when it comes to defining an individuals identity. From James D.
Fearons report of What is Identity (As We Now Use the Word)? He explains a social identity
is a set of persons marked by a label and distinguished by rules deciding membership and
(alleged) characteristic features or attributes (2). A persons social identity has tags and labels
that separate him/her from others. Further more, Fearon explains personal identity as some
distinguishing characteristic (or characteristics) that a person takes a special pride in or views as
socially consequential but more-or-less unchangeable. (2) Despite of the formal definitions
about both social and personal identity, in Julian Bagginis speech of Is There a Real You? He
defines you as in every individual, consist a collection of elements. So you have
memories, and these memories help to create what you are. You have desires, maybe for a
cookie You will have beliefs We have knowledge. We have sensations and experiences as
well. Identity makes a person unique from another. One can distinguish from others who even
share the same traits. A person is a central core that is made of abstract elements such as
memories, desires, beliefs, knowledge, sensation, and experiences. The elements overlap and
interconnect with each other. These are what construct a person and their perspective.

Authors tend to have a will to lead audiences to a specific direction. They desire (as what
is defined to be one of the element from an identity) and want readers to see what they see. This
is alike to a narrow view where writers want us to see the world in one way as opposed to
another, not unlike the way a photographer manipulates a camera lens to frame a picture.
(Greene 30). Authors want their readers to see and feel a certain way; therefore they are leading
them to a road of direction. This is the authors desire for the readers to perceive the way they
wanted to. They have control to channeling which vision readers should be sighting. It is what
authors desire of wanting readers to see a specific angle.

Ones cultural background can shape his/her identity. Especially with multilingual writers,
they are what Ferris identifies as someone who speaks and perhaps read/writes languages other
than English and that English was not the first languages [she]/he leaned.(23) According Ferris,
multilingual speakers understand more than two languages and cultures. They bring valuable
background knowledge and experience that can help their own learning processes (23) A
multilingual identities to be one who speaks and/or writes more than one language besides
English. The quotes explain a student with more than one cultural background can bring a
broader aspect when it comes to writing. With cultures blending in, writers create a new
chemistry of writing. That is, they can involve some element from English and another from
his/her culture to create a writing of new trend. This is a unique characteristic of some
individuals whose background and culture are diverse.

All writings contain authors traits in it. In Donald M. Murrays article of All Writing is
Autobiography, Murray argues that we are autobiographical in the way we writeI have my
own peculiar way of looking at the world and my own way of using language to communicate
what I see. (67) By autobiography, it does not mean authors are writing about themselves.
Murray means that the origin of any writings contains some traces of the author. Autobiography
of one can be experiences, beliefs, or desires. Indeed, the writer uses his/her experiences as muse
to develop their pieces. The experiences creates a persons unique identity, are being utilize to
make their writing exclusive compare to others.

Authors often blend in elements of their culture to the writings. In Girl in Translation,
Jean Kwok wrote After everything Ive done for you, you speak to me like this. You treat the
human heart like a dogs lung. (266).The synopsis for the novel is when Kimberly Changs aunt
Paula argued that Kimberly should not go to Yale without her permission. If Kimberly and her
mother left Aunt Paula, they would forget everything Aunt Paula had done for them in order to
have a good life in Brooklyn, United states. In addition to the forgetfulness, it is seem like they
dont care about Pauls hard work. Kwok uses a Chinese traditional phrase, treating the human
heart like a dogs lung; describing Kimberly had no appreciation for a good persons heart for
doing something for them. I sorry, sir, I said. We not find school. (Kwok 25) The narrator.
Kimberly Chang has similarities with Kwok. Kwok is an immigrant from Hong Kong and move
to Brooklyn and graduated from Harvard. They speak Cantonese as their native language; Kwok
implements this element to Kimberlys background because this will develop connectivity to the
novel. It will also make the readers feel a correlation between themselves and the book. As an
author, Kwok uses a part of her identity, a Chinese immigrant, to create a character her writing.

It is not always the author shaping the writing, but the writing can shape the author as
well.As Writers shape and change genres, the power of those genres also shapes and enables
writers identities (Bawarshi 97). (Wardle 287) As if sometimes genres create a blockage for
authors. In addition, blockages also suggest that resistance arises from contradictions
individuals experience in their multiple subject positions. (Bawarshi 100) (Wardle 287).
Although an individuals identity is influencing the writing, but when encountering writing, the
genre, how one is expanding their involvement in one system and will force he/her to stay away
other system value. (Wardle 287). This will cause contradictions in authors experiences when
he/she is writing. One incidence can contradict another event. As a result, author has to avoid
putting the element into the writing.

Authors identity is the most important contribution to writing, despite of their literacy
experience such as lessons taught in school, and outside readings. Identity is a distinctly unique
representation of an individual. Baggini defines a persons memories, desires, beliefs, knowledge,
sensation, and experiences are the factors to an identity. Specifically of a persons background
belongs to experience category. All writings are autobiography since texts contain certain traits
that belongs to author. Cultural and language environment is influencing the authors input to the
writing. As seen through Kwoks input of treating the human heart like dog lung. This is
portraying her Chinese trait by inserting a Chinese traditional, commonly used phrase. Because a
writing compose of a purpose, a reason why one write a piece, authors want readers to view in a
specific way. This is the desire that author strongly want readers to create within their thoughts
of this writing. Elements such as culture, education, and experience shape an identity of an
author.
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