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Questions on Reading Gee and Cuddy

Questions on Reading Gee and Cuddy

1.) Gee defines Discourses (capital D) as “saying (writing)-doing-being-valuing-believing combinations”. This means that one cannot just simply learn a certain discipline, they must be involved in it. One must engulf themselves in the culture of what they are trying to become. In Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk, she says, “Where are you being evaluated, either by your friends? For teenagers, it’s at the lunchroom table. For some people it’s speaking at a school board meeting. It might be giving a pitch or…

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Reading Gee

Reading Gee

Throughout the excerpt Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction by James Paul Gee, Gee discusses Discourses and the impacts that they have on everyone. Gee defines Discourses (capital D) as “saying (writing)-doing-being-valuing, believing combinations.” This “combination” is important to Gee because he believes that one must play the right role in a given social situation. He compares it to learning a second language or socially situated cognition. One cannot just be taught a Discourse, they must be engulfed in the culture, with Gee…

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They Say I Say “What’s Motivating this Writer”

They Say I Say “What’s Motivating this Writer”

I truly enjoyed the first section in this chapter that is entitled “Reading for the Conversation”. The first paragraph on page 173 was all too familiar to me, “after some awkward silences, the class would come up with something we could all agree was an accurate summary of the author’s main thesis… the discussion would often still seem forced.” In my life, I have had many teachers ask this same generic question and proceed to stare at the class expecting…

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King and Alexie Response

King and Alexie Response

While reading Sherman Alexie’s  Superman and Me and the selection of Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, one could learn, what seems to be very small on the surface, lessons that they could apply to their own life. In Alexie’s passage, Alexie talks about the exact moment he first realizes the purpose of a paragraph as he was teaching himself how to read. He says, “I still remember the exact moment when I first understood, with a…

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