Describe an experience that you have had with someone much older than you who was trying to create identification through the practice of convergence. Using information from the text, analyze why, in your judgment, that effort was successful or unsuccessful.
What will be an ideal response?
Descriptions should center on the use of language and topics assumed to be familiar to the
student (slang, for example, and topics popularized by the media as youthful), and also affecting
an informal style. Concepts that would indicate the successful or unsuccessful use of the effort
would be the seeming genuineness of the effort, and the relationship that existed prior to the
interaction. Students might indicate that “old” instructors who try to adapt to them are
undignified, do not understand their own age bracket, or have artifice.
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