Week 1 Reading Response
Instructions
Please use this space to reflect on the weeks readings (you must reference each of the weeks readings in your post, include page numbers if citing) and compose a forum post of 200-250words. A few suggestions on how to write your post: keep in mind common themes of the reading(s), your reactions to the text (s), which rhetorical mode and genre the writers are using, the audiences intended, the arguments, critique the text(s), and feel free to raise questions about the readings. In addition to the forum post please respond/comment on at least two of your peers posts. This weeks readings: "Gee What is Literacy?", Anzaldua: How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Tan Mother Tongue Thank You!
Answer
Week 1 Reading ResponseStudents NameInstitutional AffiliationDate In What is Literacy, Gee employs the transactional discourse as a literary device to convey his message in a way that is easily understood. He compares the discourse to identity kit that accommodates all the required costumes and instructions that an individual needs to communicate and behave (18). The rhetorical modes of description, narration, and examples help the audiences (social institutions) to comprehend the meaning of different discourses. The main point of concern is that the discourse in this reading is concerned with specific values that are designed to operate with particular guidelines to the expense of others. Is this a way of dictating to others on how to speak and act?In How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Anzaldua u...
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