First Objection to Gee
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…
Annotation Gee and Jordan #2
Proper Quotation
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…
“What others” Say
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…
Reasons Engaging Others Opinions in Writing is Important
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…
Jordan’s Class with Meta-Knowledge and Mushfake
Jordan’s class utilizes the combination of meta-knowledge and mush fake in their translation of “black English” to “white English”. The combination is described by Gee as the ability to use knowledge to adapt. “partial acquisition coupled with meta-knowledge and strategies to ‘make do’” (Gee 13). This is saying that you can use your knowledge to make do with what you have which is similar to how the kids translated to “white English”. The kids of Jordan’s class attempted to translate…
Meta Knowledge and Mushfake
Meta knowledge and Mushfake are good combinations for students and social change. Meta knowledge allows for one to have knowledge about the knowledge they possess, allowing them to know where they thrive. Mushfake is about making do with what you have and being innovative and creative. “Mushfake discourse means partial acquisition coupled with meta-knowledge and strategies to make do”. Gee is talking about how a combination of this allows for students to adapt to learning new things and make do…
Gee’s Theories
Theory 1 The first theory is describing how unlike a language where you can be partially fluent, in a discourse are either fluent or you aren’t. There is no in between, you are in or you are out. This is a controversial topic because it is very non inclusive and leaves a lot up for interpretation. Some things that make it controversial are what classifies that you are in the discourse and who gets to make these rules. Theory 2…
