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Not all human beings are same, there are many different cultures, behaviors, languages, and personalities which can combine to create different aspects of a person. But is there any word to describe how a person behaves? James Gee’s article about what he calls discourses, tackles this concept of describing human behavior by referring to aspects of human behavior as “Discourses” Gee describes Discourses as “a sort of ‘identity kit’ which comes complete with the appropriate costume and instructions on how…

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“A Discourse is a sort of ‘identity kit’ which comes complete with the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act, talk, and often write, so as to take on a particular role that others will recognize” (7). I agree with Gee here because I believe in his concept of discourses and how they can  provide you with an identity. I could use this in my paper as a point where Gee and I agree, considering there are many points…

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After finishing my first draft, my major concern was that I did my paper completely incorrect. And I was correct in that aspect. My paper, though containing the information needed, was written in method which was less than what was required and did not go well with the prompt.  What my peers liked most about my paper was that “I had good information and quotes that explained main ideas” (Jeremy).  They claimed that they liked that I accurately and effectively…

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As stated in the first objection, Delpit originally agreed with most of Gee’s work before she stepped back and looked at it from a different standpoint. Delpit’s second objection to Gee was that an “individual who is born into one discourse with one set of values may experience conflicts when attempting to acquire another discourse”(Delpit 547). This quote is saying that if you are not born within a discourse which you want to be born in then you will have…

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Before thinking about Gee’s text in a different perspective, Delpit agreed with most of Gee’s standpoints in literacy. Her first opposition to Gee’s text was “Gee’s notion that people who have not been born into dominant discourses will find it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible to acquire such a discourse” (Delpit 547). Delpit disagrees with this as she believes that he implying that success comes from genes and socioeconomic placement. “Gee’s argument suggest a dangerous kind of determinism as flagrant…

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Proper quotation sets up a adequate way to use quotations from other works to support your thesis. An important part about quoting is relating the quote you use back to your paper and not just using the quote as your explanation. “The introductory or lead-in claims should explain who is speaking and set up what the quotation says; the follow-up statements should explain why you consider the quotation to be important and what you take it to say” (Graff and…

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Starting with that others say in a academic paper allows for insight into a different general consensus and allows an opening up for an argument. In high school I wrote a paper on the effects of the sympathetic nervous system on humans and was told to start my research paper on what others thought about the topic and some general stereotypes are. I avoided this tension of contradiction by doing exactly what Graff and Birkenstein say “present the argument as…

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Engaging in another opinion when it comes to writing is important because it shows that you understand and respect other sides of the story and recognize that there are other ways of thinking about the topic. One example is stated by Graff and Birkenstein when discussing that writing involves more than just fact. “if your argument doesn’t identify the “they say” that you are responding to, it probably won’t make sense”. What the authors are stating here is that you…

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