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.