IAR analysis

IAR analysis: "Taking Black Technology Use Seriously:African American Discursive Traditions In the Digital Underground" by Adam J. Banks

What is invention?
In order to understand a piece of writing, it is important to examine what activities the author had to engage in to create the text. For this particular writing, Banks had to research AAVE, along with research well-known scholars and sociolinguistics such as Smitherman, Holmes, and Powell. He needed to be familiar with AAVE rhetorical and grammatical features. Banks also had to research how AAVE is appropriated on the internet, by examining websites such as Blackplanet.com. He also researched the "underground" in AA's culture.

What is being invented?
The ideas, practices, or arguments created throughout the text written by Banks include:
- The internet (especially blackplanet.com) serve as an "underground" for African Americans to express themselves without the "political gaze"
-The internet offers a way to discuss issues and important topics, while bringing people together, therefore is beneficial to its users.
- Rhetorical and grammatical features are appropriated throughout the web.
- African Americans need to be better represented online.
- The internet views race and cultural factors as unimportant

What is being arranged?
What is being put into relation to what:
-The internet to African Americans
-African Americans to AAVE
-AAVE to the "underground"
-"underground" to the digital divide
-digital divide to problems of access and use
-problems to online to AAVE's rhetorical features

What is arrangement?
It is important to realize how things put into relation to one another while trying to comprehend a piece of writings. In the writing by Banks, the following include the arrangement for his text:
-discussion to discussion
- discussion to example

What is being revised?
In this writing, by Banks, he is trying to stress the fact that technology, especially the internet, need to represent all people, not just white, middle-class men. He is also stating that African Americans have the right to use AAVE. While proving these points, Banks also is trying to bring awareness to the fact that the digital divide still exists, along with the fact the there still is an "underground".

What is revision? What strategies are engaged specifically to help the writer achieve the revisions
To reach his point, Banks had to engage in finding, and using, examples of AAVE on websites. He also had to use quotes and other ideas from well-known sociolinguistics and scholars.