Coordination

1) “In the passage, “Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan” Delpit describes the pressure put on her students to convey an important message about justice and how hard it was for the class to decide how they wanted to present themselves through writing.”  I had already written this on my draft. This is a compound sentence because it’s linking the two equally important purposes of her writing.

2) “The writers were conflicted between two Discourses and had to rely on meta-knowledge to decide which Discourse would make the biggest impact.” I had this written on my draft. This is a compound sentence because it’s important that the reader understands both the conflict and resolution to the issue.

3) “Delpit thinks that teachers can teach a Discourse, but I don’t believe they can.” I already wrote this on my draft. This is a compound sentence because both part of the sentence are equally important. It’s important that I stated her belief so I could clearly counter it.

Subordination

1) “After a lot of deliberation, the students chose to write their introduction paragraph prefacing Willie Jordan’s essay in Black English over standard English (372).” This came straight from my draft. I used subordination here because the most important part of the sentence is the conclusion that the students arrived to, not the process by which they arrived there.

2) “Although it’s easy for people to get caught up in developing a dominant secondary Discourse, there are advantages to being born into a nondominant primary Discourse.” This comes straight from my draft. This is a complex sentence because the sentence parts aren’t equally important. The main focus of the sentence is that there are benefits to being born into a nondominant Discourse, not people’s commonly held beliefs.