It’s important to understand your discourse community at all times. A discourse community is a group of people in this case students who understood basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about these goals. Each discourse community has its own unwritten rules about what can be said or how it can be said. Our class discourse community values are defined in a different way and it’s conceptualize discourse communities as social networks that frame the ethics, expectations, and exigencies of stakeholders who use situated languages to bond with others and to make meaning. In our discourse community we Cultivate joy in writing and learning. We connect past, present, and future writing histories and knowledges, clarify meaning for oneself, communicate ideas to specific audiences, compose in multiple genres, modes, and media to meet the moments of 21st century rhetorical situations, create reiterative writing processes to generate and revise ideas and construct a writer’s identity to interact with the authorial choices of others and of self. Each of these enacted values can evoke "writing-as-travel" experiences that manifest author-self interactions with material and immaterial writing activities.
In class we read two pieces, one from author James Paul Gee titled “What is Literacy?” and another piece by author Pablo Neruda titled “We are many”. In Gee’s journal, he explores discourse literacy from a linguistics perspective that suggests literacy is much more than reading or writing, but instead, a sort of identity kit where a person knows how to navigate a specific role in society. In his opinion from his definition of literacy, he argues that there are multiple literacies, as literacy involves the acquisition of non dominant discourses. A quote that I like from him is when he stated “ A discourse is a sort of “identity kit” which comes complete with the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act, talk, and often write, so as to take on a particular role that others will recognize”. The other piece we looked at “We are many” by Pablo Neruda was really good. He has dug deep within himself. His introspection has unraveled some unexpected facts about himself. He has discovered that he is not simply a single being In fact he is made up of different people. The metaphor of “geography of self “ is unusually apt one that describes best the self exploration of diverse facets of the poet’s personality. Geography is a discipline of science that basically studies the world and its various physical features. Neruda’s discovery about various and contrasting aspects of his personality is like discovery various places and landforms on the earth. Neruda is like a world in himself. Many of its aspects have been discovered by him while several others may be found out the later in his life. The poem is written in a lighter note, yet it deals with an universal experience. We humans are a curious mixture of varying and opposing emotions, traits and characteristics bring out different facets of our character, sometimes leaving us baffled at our discovery of ourselves. What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) We Are Many (Pablo Neruda)
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