RJA 7

Kim, James. "Japanese Education vs. Amerecan Edukashun." Eserver. n. page. Web. 16 Dec. 2011. <http://eserver.org/courses/fall95/76-100g/papers/kim/default.html>.

• The author has no degree, but is a freshman at CMU.
• There is no bibliography, but he cites several people in his body and utilizes charts and pictures to ground his argument.
• The author intends to incite a change in how we do education here in America by speaking directly to American students and teachers.  He tries to be unbiased in his delivery, but obviously sides with the camp that says that our educational system is very broken.  He does, however, mention some of the pitfalls that Japan experiences.
• It is a very easy read, and the information is very reliable.  It gives me something to use to substantiate my comparative arguments about America's educational system.

Dicker, Susan. Languages in America: A Pluralist View. 2nd. Multilingual Matters LTD, 2003. 298-302. Print.

• I do not know if Susan Dicker has a degree, but one would assume that she has some credibility in this matter, at least enough to write a book about it.
• She has a references page in the book and cites many people in her body.  It seems that she has some experience in ESL herself.
• She speaks to Americans, hoping to enlighten them on the idea of linguistic plurality, something that is being fought against in this country by an "English Only" movement.
• She does not use a bunch of jargon and terminology that the average Joe would not comprehend, but it is is pretty dense information.  It definitely is not a quick read.
• The book is copyrighted 2003, so the information is not particularly recent but not out of date.

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