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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 …
