Penrose/Geisler
Summary: In 'Reading and Writing without Authority' two stories are presented and compared. One of a freshman english student, the other a graduate student; both writing about paternity. For the more developed writer, authority came naturally in the paper. Leaving us with the conclusion that more seasoned writers naturally write with more authority.
Response: I like this article as I did the last article we'd had assigned. The non-abstract examples made it easier to understand the purpose of the paper.
3. In Janet's paper she simply examines, and reexplains information, while Rodger developes a conversation by explaining gaps in paternal theory.
4. Rather than risk sounding stupid to her teacher she decides to hide behind the developed authority of other writers.
5. I think I can creatively think, and develope a paper like Rodge, and I do read critically, but it's still hard to write with ethos when you don't think it will be taken seriously.
MM: Atleast for my academic article i'm going to try and write with more ethos. Mostly because I know it's acceptible in that setting.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wardle: february 24th
Summary: In Wardles paper " Identity, authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces." she presented the need for an understanding in identity, and the willingness/ability to change. If you don't fully assume your role in the world, and if you don't change your position won't improve.
Response: I like the simplicity of Wardle's argument. She introduces a character and relates it to her main argument, which made it easy to read this paper.
3. Alan refused to change the way he wrote so no opportunity for positive change was presented to him.
4. I think most people are unconsciously changing the way they use language more often than they consciously change the way they use it. So yes.
5. Alan's original discourse was quite different than the one he was introduced to, but i don't think that prevented him from being assimilated.
6. People are hired to do a job, whether that job is as a member of community or as a gear in a machine is left to the discretion of the reader. Neither.
7. If I see a teacher make an obvious mistake it makes it hard to view them as a figure of authority.
A&EI: Just being introduced to more dominant, secondary discourse communities leaves me in the position of the novice. My authority is limited, and my work isn't viewed in a serious respect. Almost all of my work I've done through writing is for assignment, and not expected to have weight.
Response: I like the simplicity of Wardle's argument. She introduces a character and relates it to her main argument, which made it easy to read this paper.
3. Alan refused to change the way he wrote so no opportunity for positive change was presented to him.
4. I think most people are unconsciously changing the way they use language more often than they consciously change the way they use it. So yes.
5. Alan's original discourse was quite different than the one he was introduced to, but i don't think that prevented him from being assimilated.
6. People are hired to do a job, whether that job is as a member of community or as a gear in a machine is left to the discretion of the reader. Neither.
7. If I see a teacher make an obvious mistake it makes it hard to view them as a figure of authority.
A&EI: Just being introduced to more dominant, secondary discourse communities leaves me in the position of the novice. My authority is limited, and my work isn't viewed in a serious respect. Almost all of my work I've done through writing is for assignment, and not expected to have weight.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Feb. 22nd Johns
Johns:
Summary:
1. The conventions of a discourse community make it hard for a new member to be taken seriously. (new ideas come unwelcome.)
I felt this article was easier to relate to than the other 2(3) on discourse communities.
2. The scientific community uses to follow Pythagorean ideals of thought constructs until mode was challenged by the scientific method.
3. Yes i'm beggining to step into a scientific discourse community, and my being opinionated may conflict with the ideals of the Physics discourse community.
4. With english people are more likely to blame others, which may make you prejudice to the idea that everything you've lost has been stolen or done at the fault of another. Other languages may not share these patterns of thought.
5. My authority in all early academic texts is derived from established authorities.
6. established authorities don't need to worry about being brushed aside and ignored, while new writers are at risk by being buried by detail focused errors.
MM: Following the path of least resistance will increase the chances of you establishing yourself as an authority in a discourse community.
Summary:
1. The conventions of a discourse community make it hard for a new member to be taken seriously. (new ideas come unwelcome.)
I felt this article was easier to relate to than the other 2(3) on discourse communities.
2. The scientific community uses to follow Pythagorean ideals of thought constructs until mode was challenged by the scientific method.
3. Yes i'm beggining to step into a scientific discourse community, and my being opinionated may conflict with the ideals of the Physics discourse community.
4. With english people are more likely to blame others, which may make you prejudice to the idea that everything you've lost has been stolen or done at the fault of another. Other languages may not share these patterns of thought.
5. My authority in all early academic texts is derived from established authorities.
6. established authorities don't need to worry about being brushed aside and ignored, while new writers are at risk by being buried by detail focused errors.
MM: Following the path of least resistance will increase the chances of you establishing yourself as an authority in a discourse community.
february 20th post
In the article "The Concepts of a Discourse Community" Swales defines the makings of a discourse community, providing six qualities that are needed for a group of individuals to be a discourse community.
I didn't like much of Swales' article it was dry, and I didn't feel like any of the information he presented was much of a revelation.
1.1. Discourse communities members share a broad set of common goals.
1.2. There is active intercommunication between members.
1.3. A discourse community has participratory mechanisms, which incentivize providing information & feedback.
1.4. Use relevent resources (for reference & understanding) to further their aims.
1.5. Discourse communities develope a lexis. (use of acronyms & jargon)
1.6. Reliability of information provided is weighed by the assumed expertise of an individual member. (heirarchy novice<expert.)
3. Swales didn't think a first year college class would be a discourse community, but a graduate level class would. (probably because they have like career specializations.)
5. A discourse community is my english 151 class. we all share common goals, interact, use similar resources, provide feedback, developed a lexis, and have a
MM: no
Gee:
Gee discusses that language and grammer are less important than discourse in our communication patterns.
Like Swales' article this paper was rather dry, but atleast it had more new information than the later article.
3. Discourse: saying-writing-doing-being-valuing-believing combinations
discourse: connected lengths of language that make sense.
4. Primary: first connections
Secondary: connections made outside of our comfort zone.
Dominant: Inspirational
non-Dominant: social interaction
5. This makes everyone loose members of the same discourse community.
6. This is similar to his ideas of Discourse and Identidy because an individual has to on his or her own learn to read& write.. "say-do-believe"
7. In a scientific community there is an expected level of understanding of the discourse communities focus. Failure to meet this level of understanding is obvious because a lack of participation or presentation of lacking information.
8. Bad information is ignored, and growth is more likely to happen in the right direction. (progress.)
13. I would like to be an apprentice in the Physics discourse community in the near future since I'm pursuing a degree in Physics.
A&EI: 2. value of knowledge carries over into academia. (wanting to know more ensures you'll try to learn more.)
4. Friends & Family hold different expectations for language and formality. Knowing and following these or atleast following the most mild of the two (family) prevents much conflict.
I didn't like much of Swales' article it was dry, and I didn't feel like any of the information he presented was much of a revelation.
1.1. Discourse communities members share a broad set of common goals.
1.2. There is active intercommunication between members.
1.3. A discourse community has participratory mechanisms, which incentivize providing information & feedback.
1.4. Use relevent resources (for reference & understanding) to further their aims.
1.5. Discourse communities develope a lexis. (use of acronyms & jargon)
1.6. Reliability of information provided is weighed by the assumed expertise of an individual member. (heirarchy novice<expert.)
3. Swales didn't think a first year college class would be a discourse community, but a graduate level class would. (probably because they have like career specializations.)
5. A discourse community is my english 151 class. we all share common goals, interact, use similar resources, provide feedback, developed a lexis, and have a
MM: no
Gee:
Gee discusses that language and grammer are less important than discourse in our communication patterns.
Like Swales' article this paper was rather dry, but atleast it had more new information than the later article.
3. Discourse: saying-writing-doing-being-valuing-believing combinations
discourse: connected lengths of language that make sense.
4. Primary: first connections
Secondary: connections made outside of our comfort zone.
Dominant: Inspirational
non-Dominant: social interaction
5. This makes everyone loose members of the same discourse community.
6. This is similar to his ideas of Discourse and Identidy because an individual has to on his or her own learn to read& write.. "say-do-believe"
7. In a scientific community there is an expected level of understanding of the discourse communities focus. Failure to meet this level of understanding is obvious because a lack of participation or presentation of lacking information.
8. Bad information is ignored, and growth is more likely to happen in the right direction. (progress.)
13. I would like to be an apprentice in the Physics discourse community in the near future since I'm pursuing a degree in Physics.
A&EI: 2. value of knowledge carries over into academia. (wanting to know more ensures you'll try to learn more.)
4. Friends & Family hold different expectations for language and formality. Knowing and following these or atleast following the most mild of the two (family) prevents much conflict.
Friday, February 17, 2012
paper #3 cover letter
In our paper we tried to build and present the idea that a literacy is a tool with which we interact with our world, and since we learn by applying our literacies; current literacies effect the way future literacies are understood. This idea provides us enough evidence to conclude that the earlier a literacy is introduced, the greater its effect on an individuals accumulative literacy, how a person understands the world.
Any constructive critique of the paper is appreciated.
Any constructive critique of the paper is appreciated.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Question
What qualities do the public look for when analyzing information from a specific discipline? (The illogical reasons people accept/don't accept information. [Based on differences in vernacular.])
arguments from authority.
arguments from authority.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
February 8th
Malcom X:
Summary: Even with the disadvantage of being in prison, and having no substantial education in his earlier life Malcom was able to find literary sponsors, and learn to read. Malcom felt nobody should have to do what he did to learn to read. In a more fair system.
Reflection: I read this article first mainly because I am familiar with his story somewhat, and I was most interested to see his article, which I also liked more than most articles we've read in our assignments.
1. Ironically enough I think he's writing to an audience that struggles with reading. Or less ironically, anyone who's disadvantaged in some similar way.
2. To him literacy isn't just the ability to read and write it's also the level of understanding of what you're reading
3.Islam, prison, and the library in prison where he got the books. The most useful sponsor of his would have to be the dictionary. Without it he would have struggled even more greatly to learn to read.
4.With his limited literacy when he began the interpretations that built upon this may have been susceptible to flaw.
6.I don't find it hard to believe. I know college students who don't read unless assigned to, and Malcom truly wanted to read. This claim is reasonable.
A&EI: Well I don't think Skype, and texting are really presentable as equals to the world wide web, but they certainly replace or divert a portion of literacy away from older modes.
Baron:
Summary: In Baron's paper "From pencils to pixels: The stages of literary technologies" he laments about the mal-effect of newer technologies on writing, edging out or damaging the older modes of literacy.
Reflection: I didn't like this paper mainly because I thought his scope on the issue was too limited allowing him to only see the aggressor, and the shrinking modes of the past. The way we share information is modernizing. For the better I think.
2. Well if technology isn't changing the shape, and nature of writing it's surely still doing that in effect by the damage it's done. (Although technology's always changed literacy.[the printing press made literacy realistic to a broader audience])
4. Steel-edged printing press, and the type writer come to mind.
6.All the images in the text are designed to discredit the internet. Although it was just as easy to burn the book of , or edit the passages of, writers in the past, and erasing someones voice is virtually impossible now.
Alexie:
Summary: Through his life Sherman Alexie dealt with discrimination because he was Indian. From this he builds on how he taught himself to read through comic books, and how that helped him become the talented writer he is today.
Reflection: I liked this story because it reminded me of Malcom X's own struggle. Even with his discrimination Alexie proceded through life without much resentment. (With this being said it's important to note the degree of discrimination to which he was subjected was quite less than that of Malcom's.)
1. If a child is labeled as being stupid there must be an impact on his self-esteem, as a result his motivation, and without motivation how is someone expected to be driven to become educated. This is especially cruel for children. Because there isn't much a child can do to overcome that.
A&EI: While it might help... the motivation to read and write, I don't think, is enough to (for everyone.) escape poverty. There are other barriers which exist.
Summary: Even with the disadvantage of being in prison, and having no substantial education in his earlier life Malcom was able to find literary sponsors, and learn to read. Malcom felt nobody should have to do what he did to learn to read. In a more fair system.
Reflection: I read this article first mainly because I am familiar with his story somewhat, and I was most interested to see his article, which I also liked more than most articles we've read in our assignments.
1. Ironically enough I think he's writing to an audience that struggles with reading. Or less ironically, anyone who's disadvantaged in some similar way.
2. To him literacy isn't just the ability to read and write it's also the level of understanding of what you're reading
3.Islam, prison, and the library in prison where he got the books. The most useful sponsor of his would have to be the dictionary. Without it he would have struggled even more greatly to learn to read.
4.With his limited literacy when he began the interpretations that built upon this may have been susceptible to flaw.
6.I don't find it hard to believe. I know college students who don't read unless assigned to, and Malcom truly wanted to read. This claim is reasonable.
A&EI: Well I don't think Skype, and texting are really presentable as equals to the world wide web, but they certainly replace or divert a portion of literacy away from older modes.
Baron:
Summary: In Baron's paper "From pencils to pixels: The stages of literary technologies" he laments about the mal-effect of newer technologies on writing, edging out or damaging the older modes of literacy.
Reflection: I didn't like this paper mainly because I thought his scope on the issue was too limited allowing him to only see the aggressor, and the shrinking modes of the past. The way we share information is modernizing. For the better I think.
2. Well if technology isn't changing the shape, and nature of writing it's surely still doing that in effect by the damage it's done. (Although technology's always changed literacy.[the printing press made literacy realistic to a broader audience])
4. Steel-edged printing press, and the type writer come to mind.
6.All the images in the text are designed to discredit the internet. Although it was just as easy to burn the book of , or edit the passages of, writers in the past, and erasing someones voice is virtually impossible now.
Alexie:
Summary: Through his life Sherman Alexie dealt with discrimination because he was Indian. From this he builds on how he taught himself to read through comic books, and how that helped him become the talented writer he is today.
Reflection: I liked this story because it reminded me of Malcom X's own struggle. Even with his discrimination Alexie proceded through life without much resentment. (With this being said it's important to note the degree of discrimination to which he was subjected was quite less than that of Malcom's.)
1. If a child is labeled as being stupid there must be an impact on his self-esteem, as a result his motivation, and without motivation how is someone expected to be driven to become educated. This is especially cruel for children. Because there isn't much a child can do to overcome that.
A&EI: While it might help... the motivation to read and write, I don't think, is enough to (for everyone.) escape poverty. There are other barriers which exist.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Brandt
Summary: 'Sponsers of Literacy' focuses on how people actually learn to write, and more on how they acquire literary skills, and from this presents the idea of literary sponsorship, which is basically one writers style becoming a part of a newer writers style, which can be seen as advertisment for the original writers. In turn this writer teaches the newer writer to write.
My thoughts: I liked this article because it focused on how writers learn to write without psychology being so essential in this definition. Or atleast only applying psychology/sociology to writing, and not other outside things.
A&EI: My main literary sponsor was education, and the public library. I didn't really have much other exposure
2. Brandt's saying that sponsors benefit from their sponsorship is simliar to saying that companies benefit by advertising their product because even though they have to provide a service to get their style out there it's still reaching a larger audience by proxy, and maybe even directly.
4.From my understanding of the word stratified i think she means that there are layers of influence in a persons literary development, and by "stakes" she was referring to balancing literacy with society, and your creative expression.
My thoughts: I liked this article because it focused on how writers learn to write without psychology being so essential in this definition. Or atleast only applying psychology/sociology to writing, and not other outside things.
A&EI: My main literary sponsor was education, and the public library. I didn't really have much other exposure
2. Brandt's saying that sponsors benefit from their sponsorship is simliar to saying that companies benefit by advertising their product because even though they have to provide a service to get their style out there it's still reaching a larger audience by proxy, and maybe even directly.
4.From my understanding of the word stratified i think she means that there are layers of influence in a persons literary development, and by "stakes" she was referring to balancing literacy with society, and your creative expression.
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