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)