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Reading and Writing are Superpowers*
Gee argues that “true acquisition of many mainstream [dominant] Discourses involves, at least while being in them, active complicity with values that conflict with one’s home- and community-based Discourses, especially for many women and minorities” (13). Delpit responds to Gee, countering that “acquiring the ability to function in a dominant discourse need not mean that Read More …
In a comment on this post, use some piece of Gee’s “Discourse” theory to explain how using Gerald Graff’s and Cathy Birkenstein’s templates could “help your writing become more original and creative” (Graff and Birkenstein 11). What would Gee say about how having pre-set templates empower you to be more creative as a thinker and writer? Read More …
Remember our procedure for making text-to-text connections: Locate a passage from one text (Delpit’s Critique 1) Paraphrase it Find a related passage in another text (Gee’s discussion on p. 7 of how you can’t learn Discourses through overt instruction) Paraphrase it Use what would Author 1 say to Author 2 about a specific example drawn Read More …
Here’s a photo of the ideas we worked on in class today. They come from our reading of Gee, pp. 9-13+. We decided that we need to continue to work on the boxed ideas: the idea that Primary Discourses can’t be liberating, Meta-knowledge, Mushfake.
MUSHFAKES: PRISON DIY INGENUITY http://temporaryservices.org/served/projects-by-name/prisoners-inventions/ http://temporaryservices.org/served/projects-by-name/prisoners-inventions/drawings-of-inventions/ http://temporaryservices.org/served/projects-by-name/prisoners-inventions/recreated-inventions/
In a comment on this post, introduce a high school student to the concept of Discourse and use it and at least one of the other terms in “the Discourse family” to explain something about your own Discourses or Discourses you see in the world. Feel free to build on and revise the paragraphs you Read More …
The Study Cycle: Preview – Attend – Review – Study – Check
If you’re looking for a good note-taking system, consider this visual variation on the Cornell two- or three-column system.
“Patchwriting” is the term writing researcher Rebecca Moore Howard (1993) uses to describe the incomplete paraphrase strategy that writers just emerging in a field often find themselves using to make it seem as if they are more knowledgeable than they are. It’s not just student writers who patchwrite. Howard reports on the work of Miguel Read More …
