James Gee defines sign and systems as different forms of communicating within a language. By this, he is discussing the different types of secondary Discourses, for example, the Discourse for different sports, different levels of education, and more. We see Gee explain this in more detail here, “We can use language to make certain sign … [Read more…]
Gee’s Building Tasks for Discourse Analysis Building Evidence for an Analysis of Science Discourse Significance “Knowledge of contexts will aid a reader’s interpretation, and indeed, knowing something about cultural and historical contexts can reveal a great deal about discourse participants, and vice versa.” (48) Haas This describes that importance of being able to … [Read more…]
Haas starts her article saying that to become a literate college student you need to master the idea of being able to readand interact with very complex text. She explains this further when she discusses the use of autonomous, which is what students tend to see a scientific text as and do not interact with it. Haas … [Read more…]
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Introduction: What did you change? In the introduction, I changed the last few sentences, which was my thesis, I first made sure it was not a run on sentence. Then I reorganized my thoughts of what the paper was going to be about. As well as make it clear that I agree with Cuddy and that it … [Read more…]
1.The idea that you can fake being in a Discourse till you become a true member of the Discourse. Using this quote to prove so by Cuddy, “She came in totally defeated, and she said, “I’m not supposed to be here.”! ‘Like, she can fake it, she can become it.[…]She comes back to me months … [Read more…]
do with something less when the real thing is not available. […] Mushfake Discourse means partial acquisition coupled with meta-knowledge and strategies to make do.” (Gee, 13) I agree with Gee’s idea here because the idea of using outside and or past information has always proven to make you more successful. When you are trying … [Read more…]
As I was writing my draft for paper one, I was worried about, not being able to make all of my ideas in an order that would make sense to the reader. As well as placing the quotes with a detailed introduction and have an in-depth commentary. What my peers liked most about my paper was … [Read more…]
3. Gee’s first theorem is stating that you cannot be part of a discourse unless you can fluently speak in that discourse. You must be a member of this discourse from the beginning of your lifetime. This could be controversial because Gee is causing a separation in different ways that people talk which connect to … [Read more…]
