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Summary of “The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition” In the article “The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition” written by Fan Shen who is a professor of English at Rochester community and Technical College, the author write about his personal experience in writing in English. The main issue for him was that his Chinese background struggles with the requirements in English composition. The first rule that challenged him was “be yourself” and use “I” in his paper to express his though which is support the idea of individualism. According to his Chinese background, “I” presents selfishness, and he familiar with “we” because Shen was used to thinking of

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