Coordinating

•  Using a mush fake discourse would be a term used to describe a person who may use some of the information or knowledge which they have from their own discourse, but try to “make do” and function in another discourse.
  • It is a compound due to the separation of “, but” They are represented equally because the first part represents what mush fake discourse is and the second part describes how these people achieve the discourse.
• Using Gee’s combination of “Mushfake”, resistance, and meta knowledge allows for better access to learning new discourses, but it also comes with the potential costs of what being in the new discourse entails.
  • the compound comes from the “, but” and it is represented equally because the first part discusses the benefits, while the second considered the drawbacks.
• These students, though black, were raised to write in the discourse of “standard English”, but these students are now attempting to learn a new discourse without the apprenticeship or “social practices” Gee claims are necessary for success.
  • These are compounds because they are separated with a “, but”. Both are equally emphasized as the first part represents the state the students are in, and the second part represents what the students want to get to.

 

Subordinating

• Although ones dominant primary discourse is unchosen and is assigned to them solely on the basis of when and where they are born, the initial tension which comes out of the topic of discourses is when a person begins to explore and attempt to acquire separate discourses
  • This is a complex sentence because it starts with the subordinate “Although”. The part that is trying to be emphasized is that your primary discourse is not chosen. This is important information in the discussion of secondary discourses which are chosen.
• Although black, these students were raised to write in the discourse of “standard English” and are now attempting to learn a new discourse without the apprenticeship or “social practices” Gee claims are necessary for success.
  • This is a complex sentence because it starts with the subordinate “Although”. The part that is emphasized here is that the students are black yet don’t write in black English. This is important because it shows the divide between what English is considered to be “correct”