Camilla Strazanac Annotated Bibliography

Harris, Joseph. The Idea of Community in the Study of Writing. College Composition and Communication 40.1 (1989): 11-22. Print.

Harris idea of community is that it cannot be put in any other way that sounds positive. We learn from our community and are molded into the people we have become because of our surroundings, our past and our resources. An example is the right to their own language that gives freedom to our words and molds how we as people present ourselves to the public. Could we grow if we did not constantly reach out to other environments and resources? Harris concept correlates to how our communities mold who we are. In my research paper exchange students have that exact affect and this new place is just another factor into their way of writing and thinking and ways of interacting with others. I do not see eye to eye with Harris about the negativity of another term for community but who we become from our community is something I will go deeper into in my research paper.

Voronova, Alesandra. AFS Exchange Student. Rekjovik, Russia.

Sasha is an exchange student from Russia who has been in the country for nearly 3 months now. Her English is good and she has even managed to find a good boyfriend for herself in a very large school. When I asked her about what her friends were like

compared to home she said they were completely different. She was used to quite and more selfish people who were not open to different people outside of their villages. Sasha herself had moved from big city St. Petersburg to various smaller towns in her lifetime. She described back home as snobby and close-minded. Here in North Carolina people are fascinated by the fact that she is different from them and they arent as cut throat competitive as they are back home. When asked if she would hang out with people in NC back home, she said only a few may make the cut. You hold your self up differently back there.

Pineda, Laura. AFS Exchange Student. Vera Cruz, Mexico

Laura was an exchange student from Mexico who studied in Belgium along side me. She grew up in a big town that was small enough for everyone to know one another. She described her friend compared to back home as the same personalities with a few differences. She was fortunate enough to find a group of Hispanic exchange students to hang around with but reviewing herself when she returned to mexico, she said the people that she had been with were of not the same standards as herself. Laura was very outgoing and open to meeting new people, and she said the Hispanics she hung out with were very exclusive and didnt care to do something different from their normal lifestyle back home.

American Psychological Association (APA):

tolerance. (n.d.). Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved October 11, 2012, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tolerance

Tolerance is defined as the limit someone can stand with an open attitude to things that in most cases you may choose to stay away from or refrain from doing. For an exchange student that is a limit tested every day when they step out of their comfort zone and jump into a new nation full of things they may or may not like.

Hansel, Ph.D., Bettina. Director of Intercultural Education and Research. AFS International, 2008. Print.

Its not weird, its not strange, its just different. Over a 25 year period, with a total of 50 years in exchange students, the organization of AFS has logged the opportunities and outcomes of their students. They have noted the benefits of international exchange and how it has affected their future. Many positive aspects of it has been what gave these students a special edge to their resums and prepared them for perhaps a difficult environment that they are unaccustomed to.