From outside,in

Mellix's title "From Outside,In" reflects her steps to use official research english. She grow up just speaking black english and than her parents teach her standard english which she used when she was in a conversation with for example white people who use official english. But she still used black english when she talked to friends or with her family. Only sometimes her mother tried to teach her how to improve her english by asking her how she would say the phrase in "correct" standard english. After she was able to decide and switch between the black and the standard english depended on the situation she was in, she went to college and took a college course. There she learned about how to write papers and later on research papers. So she improved her english from "Outside,In" because at the beginning she spoke just "dirty" english but later she learned how to handle with "correct" english and so she was involved in the society. Further more she says that she "gave birth to herself" because by using and developing her english she changed the way she behaved and so herself too.