Summary:
In her article "Tlilli Tlapalli: The path of the red and black ink,"
Gloria Anzaldua attempts to inform the audience of the differences
western cultures and tribal cultures. She does this by explaining to the
reader that western cultures tPereat their works differently than tribal
cultures. Anzaldua says that in terms of her culture (tribal), "the
works are treated not just as objects, but as persons." She then
explains that this is different from western culture because western
culture just treats their works as objects. Also, throughout the article
Anzaldua talks about her writing techniques and how she goes about
writing down her stories for people.
Synthesis:
I think that this article relates to Peter Elbow's article "Voice in
writing again: Embracing contraries." In Elbow's article he discusses
the importance of voice in an article and how it is very powerful and a
hard concept to grasp in writing. Much like what Elbow talks about can
be applied with Anzaldua's article. In her article she talks about her
different techniques for trying to correctly explain the events that go
on in her head said so she can accurately describe it to the audience.
Personal Response:
Overall, i think that the article was interesting. I thought that it was
cool when she was describing her techniques for writing. I also found
it strange that she said writing sometimes can make her physically ill. I
also enjoyed reading this article because you could tell that she had a
real passion for the things that she was talking about, so it made the
article more enjoyable to read.
Applying and Exploring:
1.
The significance of that distinction because she is explaining that western culture art is be more viewed, and in tribal art is more personal to the person. I think in our current literacy/art culture are becoming more individual in our society now-a-days because art to me is personal and people can express themselves. I also believe that art is a way to relief stress so you can make art on your own time, and do what you want to do.
2.
I think her way of how this article is written is effective. I think people should read different types of writing, and it should be kind of difficult so then you know you learn something. I think if she would of written her piece in a traditional academic format then we would get of got what she was arguing about, and she wouldn't have her own ideas in the story. Having a more academic article would change her voice and the way it was written.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
RR #23 Cixous
Summary:
In her article "VIEWPOINT The Laugh of the Medusa," Helene Cixous argues that "woman must put herself into the text-as into the world and into history by her own movement," meaning that women need to use there voice instead or others voices. Cixous expresses that writing will help discover women who they are, and to not let anyone hold you back, just write. She expresses that writing has been more reserved for men rather than women and women need to gain that right by finding out who they are and writing! Cixous expresses many views in her article but the one that is the most important is that men have made women hate women, and that is mainly her big argument.
Synthesis:
This articles relates to Flynn and Alexander. In Cixous's artlice she talks about gender and sexulaity and so does Alexander. Cixous talks about bisexuality and Alexander talks about how it is to compose a piece as a transgender person. In both Flynn and Cixous articles they are talking about gender, and mainly about male and female. Flynn talks about in both male and females composition styles and Cixous talks about how males are the blame for woman being less confident and not being able to find out who they are.
Personal Respose:
I personal thought this article was okay. It was long but I liked the topic. It made me want to keep reading after she says that men have made women hate women. That kind of shocked me on how much she hates men. She seems to hate them atleast. She blames them for just about everything. It was very long though but I thought it was interesting in the beginning.
Questions for Discussion and Journaling:
1. This piece did make me a little uncomfortable because she blamed everything on men, when women could of stepped up back in the 70's. Yes it might be different from today to back then but women could of stood up for themselves. It's not the male genders fault though. Yes, I think she tries to make her reader uncomfortable because she is a man hater and blames everything on the male gender because the male gender had more power.
2.Cixous says "write yourselves" as to a meaning that "writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it (248). She is saying write so you can discover who you are really are, and to give us some power in composition. She wants women to kind of escape and write about anything and know not to be scared and don't let any one hold o back just write.
In her article "VIEWPOINT The Laugh of the Medusa," Helene Cixous argues that "woman must put herself into the text-as into the world and into history by her own movement," meaning that women need to use there voice instead or others voices. Cixous expresses that writing will help discover women who they are, and to not let anyone hold you back, just write. She expresses that writing has been more reserved for men rather than women and women need to gain that right by finding out who they are and writing! Cixous expresses many views in her article but the one that is the most important is that men have made women hate women, and that is mainly her big argument.
Synthesis:
This articles relates to Flynn and Alexander. In Cixous's artlice she talks about gender and sexulaity and so does Alexander. Cixous talks about bisexuality and Alexander talks about how it is to compose a piece as a transgender person. In both Flynn and Cixous articles they are talking about gender, and mainly about male and female. Flynn talks about in both male and females composition styles and Cixous talks about how males are the blame for woman being less confident and not being able to find out who they are.
Personal Respose:
I personal thought this article was okay. It was long but I liked the topic. It made me want to keep reading after she says that men have made women hate women. That kind of shocked me on how much she hates men. She seems to hate them atleast. She blames them for just about everything. It was very long though but I thought it was interesting in the beginning.
Questions for Discussion and Journaling:
1. This piece did make me a little uncomfortable because she blamed everything on men, when women could of stepped up back in the 70's. Yes it might be different from today to back then but women could of stood up for themselves. It's not the male genders fault though. Yes, I think she tries to make her reader uncomfortable because she is a man hater and blames everything on the male gender because the male gender had more power.
2.Cixous says "write yourselves" as to a meaning that "writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it (248). She is saying write so you can discover who you are really are, and to give us some power in composition. She wants women to kind of escape and write about anything and know not to be scared and don't let any one hold o back just write.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
RR #22 Alexander
Summary: In the article "Queer Rhetorical Agency: Questioning Narratives
of Heteronormality" David L. Wallace and Jonathan Alexander attempt to
inform the audience of the discrimination that LGBT (lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgendered) community faces. They believe that it is unfair
to discriminate against people whom you do not fully understand. They
then go on to compare Sedgwick's epistemology of the closet and Gee and
Delpit's versions of new literacy studies.
Synthesis:
I would compare this article to Malinowitz's article "Queer Texts, Queer Context s" because in both articles they discuss the LGBT community and how they are discriminated against. In Malinowitz's article she talks about how the LGBT are their own community therefore, their own discourse and it is wrong for society to judge them a certain way because of this.
Opinion:
I liked this article because it brings up an interesting topic that most people wouldn't necessarily want to bring up. It also raises some good points when they talk about how it is wrong for society to discriminate against certain people
A&E
3. According to Alexander, normally gendered students can gain exposure to a new perspective on gender roles and the social norms that come with them, as well as how gender influences politics. Yes I do think that this gendered exposure could go along with other minorities that we have discussed
in class.
4.What Alexander means when he calls gender "construct" is that gender is very misinterpreted due to politics and that politics effects the society greatly. The implications are both personal and political when we address it in class because it is very relevant to today in our society. Gender roles are becoming bigger issues in our society. And the writing styles in the community are going to be affected and different.
Synthesis:
I would compare this article to Malinowitz's article "Queer Texts, Queer Context s" because in both articles they discuss the LGBT community and how they are discriminated against. In Malinowitz's article she talks about how the LGBT are their own community therefore, their own discourse and it is wrong for society to judge them a certain way because of this.
Opinion:
I liked this article because it brings up an interesting topic that most people wouldn't necessarily want to bring up. It also raises some good points when they talk about how it is wrong for society to discriminate against certain people
A&E
3. According to Alexander, normally gendered students can gain exposure to a new perspective on gender roles and the social norms that come with them, as well as how gender influences politics. Yes I do think that this gendered exposure could go along with other minorities that we have discussed
in class.
4.What Alexander means when he calls gender "construct" is that gender is very misinterpreted due to politics and that politics effects the society greatly. The implications are both personal and political when we address it in class because it is very relevant to today in our society. Gender roles are becoming bigger issues in our society. And the writing styles in the community are going to be affected and different.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
RR #21 Smitherman
Summary:
In the article "'God Don't Never Change': Black English from a Black Perspective," Geneva Smitherman attempts to explain the difference between black and white language. She believes that black people have a different way of speaking than white people. She thinks that it is not fair that black people have to learn how to speak like white people because their language should be just as good as white people's language.
Synthesis:
I think this article deals a lot with identity like Delpit and Gee. It connects with Gee because of the "identity kit" and how black and white language are different discourses. This article relates to Delpit's article because Delpit states that you have the ability to change your primary discourse and become fluent in another discourse. Both of them also agree that students shouldn't have to be forced to learn standard English.
Thoughts:
I thought this article was difficult. I never really realized how big grammar was until I read this article. It wasn't difficult to read, I just didn't like how many grammar problems there were. I also that it was interesting how culture can can effect someone's writing and English.
ODJ:
1. She uses Black Idiom (BI) rhetorically because that is how she proves her point in her article. She is proving that you can read dialect and understand it just as well as if you were writing in standard English.
2. Language promotes power for specific races and classes because identity comes out when you talk or write. It promotes power for races because one race may of been more dominant before another one and you can't make someone go to a different culture that they aren't use too.
In the article "'God Don't Never Change': Black English from a Black Perspective," Geneva Smitherman attempts to explain the difference between black and white language. She believes that black people have a different way of speaking than white people. She thinks that it is not fair that black people have to learn how to speak like white people because their language should be just as good as white people's language.
Synthesis:
I think this article deals a lot with identity like Delpit and Gee. It connects with Gee because of the "identity kit" and how black and white language are different discourses. This article relates to Delpit's article because Delpit states that you have the ability to change your primary discourse and become fluent in another discourse. Both of them also agree that students shouldn't have to be forced to learn standard English.
Thoughts:
I thought this article was difficult. I never really realized how big grammar was until I read this article. It wasn't difficult to read, I just didn't like how many grammar problems there were. I also that it was interesting how culture can can effect someone's writing and English.
ODJ:
1. She uses Black Idiom (BI) rhetorically because that is how she proves her point in her article. She is proving that you can read dialect and understand it just as well as if you were writing in standard English.
2. Language promotes power for specific races and classes because identity comes out when you talk or write. It promotes power for races because one race may of been more dominant before another one and you can't make someone go to a different culture that they aren't use too.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
RR #20 Flynn
Getting ready to read:
My experiences with gender differences in the classroom has always been the same. I have never had a female teacher that treated male students differently than female students; and vis versa. All of my teachers have treated everyone in my classroom the same.
Summary:
In her article "Composing as a Woman" , Elizabeth Flynn attempts to explain to her audience of her argument of the most of the writing from our society have been from the male perspective over the past couple years, and so she states that women;s perspective should be included too.
Synthesis:
This article reminds me of the article James Paul Gee wrote about the "identity kit". He defines it as “the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act, talk and often write, so as to take on a particular role that other recognize and how it shapes a writes identity." The articles both reflect how identity shapes a person's writing. The only difference is in this article it is based on woman and the other is on discourse communities.
Questions for Discussion and Journaling:
1. I think this means that our society is very stereotyped,that women have kind of been cheated because there perspectives have been pushed to the side, and not noticed as much as the mens perspective have been. The silencing of women's voices relate to the marginalization of other minorities because women were ignored, and that uniformity is valued more.
My experiences with gender differences in the classroom has always been the same. I have never had a female teacher that treated male students differently than female students; and vis versa. All of my teachers have treated everyone in my classroom the same.
Summary:
In her article "Composing as a Woman" , Elizabeth Flynn attempts to explain to her audience of her argument of the most of the writing from our society have been from the male perspective over the past couple years, and so she states that women;s perspective should be included too.
Synthesis:
This article reminds me of the article James Paul Gee wrote about the "identity kit". He defines it as “the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act, talk and often write, so as to take on a particular role that other recognize and how it shapes a writes identity." The articles both reflect how identity shapes a person's writing. The only difference is in this article it is based on woman and the other is on discourse communities.
Questions for Discussion and Journaling:
1. I think this means that our society is very stereotyped,that women have kind of been cheated because there perspectives have been pushed to the side, and not noticed as much as the mens perspective have been. The silencing of women's voices relate to the marginalization of other minorities because women were ignored, and that uniformity is valued more.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
RR #19
Summary:
In his article "Memoria is a Friend of Ours: On the Discourses of Color," Victor Villanueva attempts to explain the writing concept of memoria to his audience. He also explains how we talk about color. He does this by including poems and excerpts from other writers talking about how "Memoria class and pushes us forward." He also refers to a book titled "Boostraps" which includes things tried in a classroom and is ethnographic research.
Synthesis:
The reading I think that is related to this article would be Wardle, and how they both involve discourse in a workplace. They both bring new situations in a discourse communities and how they are closely related.
Personal Response:
I thought this article was very weird. It was interesting reading how he put different types of writings into his article such as poems, exerts, and stories of lives. I thought it was cool how anything can be a discourse community and anyone.
QD:
7. Villanueva's primary source of his discourse community is his family, and his secondary discourse is his public life outside of his home.
In his article "Memoria is a Friend of Ours: On the Discourses of Color," Victor Villanueva attempts to explain the writing concept of memoria to his audience. He also explains how we talk about color. He does this by including poems and excerpts from other writers talking about how "Memoria class and pushes us forward." He also refers to a book titled "Boostraps" which includes things tried in a classroom and is ethnographic research.
Synthesis:
The reading I think that is related to this article would be Wardle, and how they both involve discourse in a workplace. They both bring new situations in a discourse communities and how they are closely related.
Personal Response:
I thought this article was very weird. It was interesting reading how he put different types of writings into his article such as poems, exerts, and stories of lives. I thought it was cool how anything can be a discourse community and anyone.
QD:
7. Villanueva's primary source of his discourse community is his family, and his secondary discourse is his public life outside of his home.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Reading Response 18
Summary:
In the article "Autism and Rhetoric" by Paul Heilker and Melanie Yergeau, they attempt to explain that autism is a rhetoric. They say that it is "a way of being in the world through language, a rhetoric we may not have encountered or recognized frequently in the past nor value highly in academic contexts, but a rhetoric, nonetheless. They also talk about rhetorical listening and silence and how it is a practice of changing how we hear something so we can respond correctly to other people's discourse communities.
Synthesis:
This article can relate to Malinowitz's article because in Malinowitz's article he talks about how people respond to the discourse community of the gay, lesbian, and bisexuals. This is the same as Heilker and Yergeau's article because they talk about the same things but just in the context of the Autism discourse community.
Opinion:
I liked this article because it talked about how people define what autism is and how people should talk about it and listen to it. I thought that it brought up some interesting points when it talked about rhetorical listening. I also liked how it used real life stories to make the article easier to understand and relatable.
In the article "Autism and Rhetoric" by Paul Heilker and Melanie Yergeau, they attempt to explain that autism is a rhetoric. They say that it is "a way of being in the world through language, a rhetoric we may not have encountered or recognized frequently in the past nor value highly in academic contexts, but a rhetoric, nonetheless. They also talk about rhetorical listening and silence and how it is a practice of changing how we hear something so we can respond correctly to other people's discourse communities.
Synthesis:
This article can relate to Malinowitz's article because in Malinowitz's article he talks about how people respond to the discourse community of the gay, lesbian, and bisexuals. This is the same as Heilker and Yergeau's article because they talk about the same things but just in the context of the Autism discourse community.
Opinion:
I liked this article because it talked about how people define what autism is and how people should talk about it and listen to it. I thought that it brought up some interesting points when it talked about rhetorical listening. I also liked how it used real life stories to make the article easier to understand and relatable.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Intro/Coversation Project 3
You know how it feels when you travel to a different country
and everyone that is around you is speaking a different language? That feeling
can also be found when you are listening to people talk from another discourse
community. Recently, I just joined a sorority where I was forced to learn a
whole new language and letters of the Greek alphabet. Since, I am only a new member there are
certain things that I am not allowed to know until I am officially initiated.
My discourse community that I have chosen is my sorority. I am in the Alpha
Gamma Delta Sorority. My sorority is very laid back, and doesn’t make us do as
much as other sororities do. We have sisterhoods and do our philanthropy. We
give back to our community by helping people with diabetes. Our language is how
we communicate with our group. We have chapter every Sunday. We also have
sisterhoods where we meet as a whole group and just hang out and get to know
each other better. We have socials with other fraternities to get to know other
people and to learn how to get out and to meet new people.
John Swales defines a discourse
community by using his six defining characteristics for identifying a certain
group of individuals. He claims that these six characteristics are that a
discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common goals, has mechanisms of
intercommunication among its members, participatory mechanisms primarily to
provide information and feedback, uses one or more genres in the communicative
aims, has acquired some form of lexis, and a suitable degree of relevant
content and discoursal expertise. These qualities can be applied to the
discourse community of my sorority because all of these things were met. One
example of how these criteria can be met is by the first characteristic. It is
met because in order to join the sorority, you have to have the same common goals
as the other girls. This would be our philanthropy and beliefs towards helping
the community.
In addition to Swales, James Paul
Gee believes that (at any moment we are using language and we must say or write
the right thing and the right way while playing the right social role and
(appearing) to the right values, beliefs and attitudes.” (484). In my sorority
we have multiple chairs and opportunities of leadership to display certain
values, beliefs, and attitudes towards the people that are apart of our
community. My sorority’s values are very important to who we are and what we
represent. These values define the women that we are and what we want to
become. This goes along with the idea of a discourse community because the
things that we say have a certain meaning attached to the specific words that
we use within our sorority.
As to our beliefs, values, and
attitudes of what Swales is referring too, Wardle has three interrelated modes
of belonging: engagement imagination, and alignment.
“According to Wenger, “layers build upon each other to
produce our identity as a very complex interweaving of participative experience
and reification projections.(151) This quote is used by Wardle but Wenger is
the actual writer to quote that. (524). In our sorority we have big and
littles. These are girls who are older than freshman who want a girl that is
younger to help show them around our sorority and to make us feel welcomed. We
build and learn from each other to produce our identity. We have to stay true
to our beliefs, values, and attitudes or that would make Alpha Gamma Delta not
look so good. We are always experiencing to projects such as our philanthropy.
We are dedicated to our sorority and are joining a discourse community that is
not only during college, but for our entire life span.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Wardle
In the article, Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write
in New Workplaces, Elizabeth Wardle introduces the concept of tools when it
comes to discourse communities. She does a study on a new employee who just graduated college named Alan. Alan see's himself above everyone else, and what Wardle does is kind of negative. She says that Alan is a tool and that some members are persceived not as a member but as a tool as she states. Alan is in a different discourse community and doesn't think he needs to change his ways for this discourse community.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Reading Response #16
Summary:
In the article "Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities," DeVitt, Bawarshi, and Reiff attempt to show how genre is related to discourse communities, and they argue that by learning genres one can fully learn how to understand a discourse community.
Synthesis: A couple articles that relate to this article would be Gee and Swales because they deal with discourse communities. But Gee and Swales state there definitions of what a discourse community is, and DeVitt, Bawarshi, and Reiff define it by genre.
Personal Response: I thought this article was very informational and I learned something from it. It helped learn more about what genre is in a discourse community because I didn't know what it was exactly. It wasn't as bad as some of the other readings we have done.
In the article "Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities," DeVitt, Bawarshi, and Reiff attempt to show how genre is related to discourse communities, and they argue that by learning genres one can fully learn how to understand a discourse community.
Synthesis: A couple articles that relate to this article would be Gee and Swales because they deal with discourse communities. But Gee and Swales state there definitions of what a discourse community is, and DeVitt, Bawarshi, and Reiff define it by genre.
Personal Response: I thought this article was very informational and I learned something from it. It helped learn more about what genre is in a discourse community because I didn't know what it was exactly. It wasn't as bad as some of the other readings we have done.
Project 3 Proposal
For the discourse community I chose to do for Project 3 is my
sorority, Alpha Gamma Delta. I just rushed a couple a weeks ago so I am a new
proud member of this sorority. The main goals of my sorority we support
lifelong learning as a means to gain understanding and wisdom, we promote the
value of fraternal membership and commitment to higher education, we help
prepare members to contribute to the world's work, and we advocate lifetime
involvement in Alpha Gamma Delta. The mechanisms of intercommunication among
our sorority are that we have chapter every Sunday at 6. Right now since I am a
new member we have a new members meeting to learn all the goals and everything
about the alpha gamma fraternity. At chapter we discuss what all we have to do
in our chapter like sisterhoods, philanthropy, and anything else our president
says we have to do. We also have Rho Mom’s that are like Big Sisters’ to us.
They are girls who are going to help you if you have questions, and to be a
future great friend.
In participatory
mechanism primarily to provide information and feedback to our sorority, the
main big thing we use to get information out to everyone is by e-mail. We have
a facebook page and we text each other to let us know information. We pay money
to be in our sorority, and we do philanthropy to help out people with diabetes.
We do different types of socials, sisterhoods, and fundraisers throughout the
year. We have alumni’s that come back every year for homecoming, and we give
them a tour of the house. New members always join in fall when we have formal
or sometimes informal rush.
My interest in my sorority is to gain life-long friendships,
sisterhoods, and networking. I am currently becoming part of a sorority that is
all about sisterhood, and personal development through that sisterhood. What I am
interested in is finding out what Alpha Gamma Delta mean, and what different
types of sisterhoods we do. When I interview someone I will interview a
freshman/ new pledger, and existing member. I have two girls I have in mind
that I want to interview and we have a sisterhood coming up to meet all the
older girls. The text I will analyze are going to be our e-mails, and chapter
minutes. E-mails tell us information we need to know and what is going on.
Chapter minutes are sent to us in e-mail of what we discussed in the chapter
meeting. I am very interested in learning more about my sorority and what it is
all about and the language/writing it has in this discourse community.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Gee Response
Summary:
In his article "Literacy Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction," James Paul Gee attempts to explain to the reader what a discourse is and what the different types of discourses are. He then argues that literacy is"the mastery of or fluent control over a secondary discourse."
Synthesis:
This article relates to the last article we read which was John Swales' "The Concept of Discourse Community" because in both of the articles they discuss what they believe is a discourse community and the differences between the two.
Before you read:
3 activities I am involved in are soccer, sorority, and schooling (college). None of my activities that I am involved in do not influence in the way I participate in. I join a sorority to gain friendship, to network, and get to know new people. They do remain distinctly separate in my life. Sororities do can help me with schooling. Soccer gives me time management, and get stuff done with school.
Questions for Discussion and Journaling:
1. What Gee means when he says you can speak with perfect grammar and yet be "wrong nonetheless" he is saying the way you speak is influenced by the social environment that you grew up in. No this doesn't conflict with what I've been caught in school because it doesn't have the biggest effect on me because what I've learned in high school has always stuck in me since school and learned my grammar.
Opinion:
I thought that this article was interesting. I liked how Gee broke up discourses into different types. I had never really thought about something like that before. I also was intrigued by the idea of the capital "D" and the lowercase "d" idea.
In his article "Literacy Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction," James Paul Gee attempts to explain to the reader what a discourse is and what the different types of discourses are. He then argues that literacy is"the mastery of or fluent control over a secondary discourse."
Synthesis:
This article relates to the last article we read which was John Swales' "The Concept of Discourse Community" because in both of the articles they discuss what they believe is a discourse community and the differences between the two.
Before you read:
3 activities I am involved in are soccer, sorority, and schooling (college). None of my activities that I am involved in do not influence in the way I participate in. I join a sorority to gain friendship, to network, and get to know new people. They do remain distinctly separate in my life. Sororities do can help me with schooling. Soccer gives me time management, and get stuff done with school.
Questions for Discussion and Journaling:
1. What Gee means when he says you can speak with perfect grammar and yet be "wrong nonetheless" he is saying the way you speak is influenced by the social environment that you grew up in. No this doesn't conflict with what I've been caught in school because it doesn't have the biggest effect on me because what I've learned in high school has always stuck in me since school and learned my grammar.
Opinion:
I thought that this article was interesting. I liked how Gee broke up discourses into different types. I had never really thought about something like that before. I also was intrigued by the idea of the capital "D" and the lowercase "d" idea.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Reading Response #14 Swales
Summary:
In his article "The Concept of Discourse Community," John Swales attempts to explain to the reader what a discourse community is and offer a set of criteria to make it more clear as well as how they work. He argues that a speech community has different criteria than a discourse community and it is important to know the difference between the two.
Before you Read:
A time when I felt out of place was when I was rushing for a sorority. I went to a house and it was the first day and we walked in and the girls did a fashion show. I felt so "out of place" because I don't like fashion that much, I just wear clothes that I like. I am not the girl-est girl but I can be girly but the fashion show at this house was ridiculous, and I just felt so uncomfortable being there.
Synthesis:
“The Concept of Discourse Community” shares similarities to “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community”, James Porter’s article because they are both showing text relationship. The reader has a clear view of the discourse community and it's different movements. Both deal with concept and how it is beneficial to writing.
Questions for Discussion and Journaling:
5. A discourse community that I belong to would be my soccer team. It meets the six characteristics of a discourse community because everyone on my team loves the sport and wants to work hard to get better at it. Everyone on the soccer team also gets updates and emails regarding times and the practice schedule. Our lexis would be that we always make up crazy nicknames for corner kicks or free kicks and nobody understands them or gets what we are trying to do. The genres of this were just the different types of drills that we would practice and deciding what the names of the plays would be.
Opinion:
I thought the article was interesting because it discussed the concept of discourse and discourse communities in various ways.The reading was very difficult for me but I feel like all the readings are difficult for me to read.
In his article "The Concept of Discourse Community," John Swales attempts to explain to the reader what a discourse community is and offer a set of criteria to make it more clear as well as how they work. He argues that a speech community has different criteria than a discourse community and it is important to know the difference between the two.
Before you Read:
A time when I felt out of place was when I was rushing for a sorority. I went to a house and it was the first day and we walked in and the girls did a fashion show. I felt so "out of place" because I don't like fashion that much, I just wear clothes that I like. I am not the girl-est girl but I can be girly but the fashion show at this house was ridiculous, and I just felt so uncomfortable being there.
Synthesis:
“The Concept of Discourse Community” shares similarities to “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community”, James Porter’s article because they are both showing text relationship. The reader has a clear view of the discourse community and it's different movements. Both deal with concept and how it is beneficial to writing.
Questions for Discussion and Journaling:
5. A discourse community that I belong to would be my soccer team. It meets the six characteristics of a discourse community because everyone on my team loves the sport and wants to work hard to get better at it. Everyone on the soccer team also gets updates and emails regarding times and the practice schedule. Our lexis would be that we always make up crazy nicknames for corner kicks or free kicks and nobody understands them or gets what we are trying to do. The genres of this were just the different types of drills that we would practice and deciding what the names of the plays would be.
Opinion:
I thought the article was interesting because it discussed the concept of discourse and discourse communities in various ways.The reading was very difficult for me but I feel like all the readings are difficult for me to read.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Reading #13 Wysocki
Summary:
In her article "The Sticky Embrace of Beauty", Anne Frances Wysocki attempts to explain to the reader about the way that advertising is pleasing and/or offensive. She states how women are objectifying by showing how beauty is in advertisements, how they are going to stand out or pleasure someone, but in context it can sometimes be offensive to a women.
Syntheis:
I think this article relates to the Bernhardt article in the way that they both talk about the visual aspects of writing piece, and how they have different effects on the reader.
Pre-Reading:
This is what every man thinks a woman should do, cook and clean. Of course this will make me mad. But i like this advertisment because it is funny how she is like " just not as it applies to me." It is old but it has a sense of humor but is so true. Men should and can clean and cook also not just woman.
QD:
2. The way Wysocki sets up her article is a little werid for me, she uses too many quotes so I got a little lost and confused on what she was trying to say. I would say it is a low visual but at time she had some visual elements because she explain the effects in detail.
3. The Peek ad for me as a consumer would work because it has a picture and has important details on it, personally I wouldn't buy it because I don't like but it makes me wonder how much stuff is out there in the world that puts out information like that.
AE:
2. I agree with Wysocki that “beauty is something we construct together” and subjected to social forces because everyone is has beauty but some people just don't construct it together in time to see that they have beauty. Everyone is beautiful in there own way.
Meta Moment:
To me the statement does apply to what Wysocki explains because she states that beauty catches the eye and that you have to go outside of the box at times, and if you don't then you will just be there forever. I don't know really how it applies to other visual art.
My thoughts:
I thought this reading was a little confusing with all the quotes and stuff she put in it, and it was a very long and boring. I guess I am just a boring reader but I didn't enjoy reading the article, and didn't really get what she was trying to state.
In her article "The Sticky Embrace of Beauty", Anne Frances Wysocki attempts to explain to the reader about the way that advertising is pleasing and/or offensive. She states how women are objectifying by showing how beauty is in advertisements, how they are going to stand out or pleasure someone, but in context it can sometimes be offensive to a women.
Syntheis:
I think this article relates to the Bernhardt article in the way that they both talk about the visual aspects of writing piece, and how they have different effects on the reader.
Pre-Reading:
QD:
2. The way Wysocki sets up her article is a little werid for me, she uses too many quotes so I got a little lost and confused on what she was trying to say. I would say it is a low visual but at time she had some visual elements because she explain the effects in detail.
3. The Peek ad for me as a consumer would work because it has a picture and has important details on it, personally I wouldn't buy it because I don't like but it makes me wonder how much stuff is out there in the world that puts out information like that.
AE:
2. I agree with Wysocki that “beauty is something we construct together” and subjected to social forces because everyone is has beauty but some people just don't construct it together in time to see that they have beauty. Everyone is beautiful in there own way.
Meta Moment:
To me the statement does apply to what Wysocki explains because she states that beauty catches the eye and that you have to go outside of the box at times, and if you don't then you will just be there forever. I don't know really how it applies to other visual art.
My thoughts:
I thought this reading was a little confusing with all the quotes and stuff she put in it, and it was a very long and boring. I guess I am just a boring reader but I didn't enjoy reading the article, and didn't really get what she was trying to state.
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