Hello,

In the composition classroom, the adult student and learner often presents a variety of writing skills and needs as well as reading comprehension abilities, issues and points of view. As a woman of Portuguese decent, I bring a deeply personal understanding to the diversity conversation in the higher education classroom. I know first hand what it is like to not have an ethnic identity box to check on any form. And I have been the silent unsure woman sitting in the back of the classro...