Flynn

Flynn's articles opened my eyes to the thought of differences between male and female composition. From my point of view, as a male, I do like to talk about my personal achievements or accomplishments because they make me proud of myself. The way I took Flynn's work was as if it was so self-centered to share your personal experiences instead of speaking about connections with others. Females are naturally more emotional than males (at least that's how I see it), so of course they will love talking about best friend memories and beautiful nature scences. However, males are capible of this as well. While I disagreed with that position from Flynn, I do believe men and women think write differently and the male has been dominate for some time. These gender roles have been becoming more equal as time goes on; women are just as intelligent as men and are respected in that light.

Project 3 Intro

College students at Ohio University have tight schedules. They have to be at class on time, go to many meetings and appointments, keep up with school work, get enough sleep, and, maybe most importantly, make sure they have food in their stomachs. With the available dining halls on campus, students have the opportunity to get food in alloted time frames for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They go into the halls, get refreshments and refuel their busy bodies. But do they ever think of what goes on behind the scenes of the dining halls? The discourse community of these campus staples are actually very interesting, and I will be exploring Nelson Dining Hall for my project.

Wysocki

This is an advertisement from Adidas. The ad expects the audience to know who the man is to the right, Muhammed Ali. He is contrasted from the dark background with his lighter shade and white shorts, making him glow. Although he is not aligned in the center of the photo, Ali is the first thing you notice because of his brightness and his fame as a professional boxer. In the bottom of the picture you see proximity with many words bunched together, contrasting again with the background. In this excerpt, you continually see the word "impossible" repeated, creating a main theme of the picture. This causes a huge reaction if you know all the struggles that Ali went through as a boxer and a person, and you can see a large amount of emotion on his face. After seeing all of this, you have to search for the tiny Adidas logo in the bottom right corner, hidden by the light of Ali's shorts.

Gee Dialectical Journal

Gee

Discourse (capital D) and “identity kit” (484)

“Discourses are not mastered by overt instruction, but by enculturation into social practices through scaffolded and supported interaction with people who have already mastered the Discourse.” (484)

“primary Discourse, is the one we first use to make sense of the world and interact with others” (485)

Gee’s definition of “literacy”: “the mastery of or fluent control over a secondary Discourse” (486)

“Someone cannot engage in a Discourse in a less than fully fluent manner. You are either in it or you’re not.” (487)

“Discourse always involves more than writing and reading” (488)

“Mushfake Discourse” “do with something less when the real thing is not available” (490)

Project 3 Proposal

The discourse community I choose to explore is my job working at Nelson Dining Hall. I want to show how the use of literature and writing effects the workers and how they interact with each other.

Project 3 Proposal

The discourse community I choose to explore is my job working at Nelson Dining Hall. I want to show how the use of literature and writing effects the workers and how they interact with each other.

Swales Dialectic Journal

Dialectic Journal – Swales (WAW, 464-78)

“A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals.” (471)

“The goals are public, because spies may join speech and discourse communities for hidden purposes of subversion, while more ordinary people may join organizations with private hopes of commercial or romantic advancement.” (471)

“A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members.” (471)

“A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback.” (472)

“A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims.” (472)

“Discoursal expectations are created by the genres that articulate the operations of the discourse community.” (472)

“In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has acquired some specific lexis.” (473)

“The inbuilt dynamic towards an increasingly shared and specialized terminology is realized through the development of community-specific abbreviations and acronyms.” (473)

“A discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and Discoursal expertise.” (473)

“Survival of the community depends on a reasonable ratio between novices and experts.” (473)

“The members of the discourse community [HKSC] have, superficially at least, nothing in common except their shared hobby interest.” (474)