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Introduction-  In my introduction, I deleted the part about primary and secondary Discourses because it wasn’t relevant to the topic. I introduced Gee, Hass, Nair and Nair and the IMRAD Cheat Sheet as well to make my thesis more clear. Evidence and Explanations: I expanded on my idea of connections and added more evidence to that paragraph. I also added more explanation to all my paragraphs on how Gee relates to the three additional sources. Reorganization- I moved around almost all of my…

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In this paper, these building tasks will be focused on Scientific Discourse specifically and how each task fits to help identify this Discourse using textual evidence from Christina Hass, Nair and Nair, and the IMRAD Cheat Sheet. This is a compound sentence because the idea of scientific discourse and the building tasks or equally important.   From this example, it shows a few different identities, there is the author, the reader, the reader who decides to read it further and…

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Making connections is also an essential building task that Gee describes in establishing Discourse. It relates one thing to another and as Gee states, “we use language to render certain things connected or relevant (or not) to other things, that is, to build connections or relevance” (35).  Put something in here about explaining this quote……………………………….For example, Hass writes about how Eliza grew by her senior year, she states, ““By her senior year, she often viewed texts as multiply connected –…

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Where are you already working pretty well with Gee’s concepts? How, specifically,  will you apply that more solid engagement to a specific paragraph that is not yet working so effectively with Gee (or Haas, or another text in play)? I am working well with Gee in basically every one of my paragraphs. I have taken what I think the most important building tasks are in a Discourse and relating them to examples in the articles to give examples. My introduction…

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In everyone’s life, there are some very significant things and some very insignificant things. These are determined by each individual and varies. In Gee’s Building Tasks article he talks about the seven building tasks of Discourse. One of them is significance, Gee states “But for many things, we need to use language to render them significant or to lessen their significance, to signal to others how we view their significance” (Gee 32). We use language to communicate to others why…

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Gee’s Building Tasks for Discourse Analysis Building Evidence for an Analysis of Science Discourse   For each of these seven building tasks, Cripps has modeled one example of a passage and brief explanation. Find your own quotes and do your own explaining.  You are not required/expected to have an example in each of the seven building tasks.   Significance “ The educational task of helping students recognize the human nature of scientific activity and the rhetorical nature of scientific texts…

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 questioning how to write an abstract/relate to self  relating to high school lab reports  writing in own words to help understand  Help my understanding of how language changes based on where you are  relationship to self in high school  questioning/ seeking more explanation

  help understand  help understand why she was doing this article  questioning  question/text to text ENG110J

  In Christina Hass’s opening statement, she talks about what becoming literate is at the college level. By this, she means that in college, a textbook becomes more than just a text. Hass states that “Disciplinary texts, like all texts, are intensely situated, rife with purpose and motive, anchored in myriad ways to the individuals and the cultures that produce them,” (Hass 44). Here she is explaining how even in academic writing, there is a purpose to it. To become…

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Introduction:  I did not change much in the introduction paragraph. I changed some words to make it sound less repetitive. I also strengthened my claim by introducing Cuddy. Evidence and Explanations: One major piece of evidence and examples I added was the information about Cuddy. I explained more about what she did and her research on power posing. I kept the majority of the rest of my quotes, especially the ones regarding Gee’s ideas. Reorganization: I reorganized my topic sentence…

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