Cixous

Cixous

Summary

            Cixous talks about how she see that women should write in a women’s voice and men should write in a males voice. She’s trying to make the point that women need to make there mark in the writing community. She try’s to back up her points with sexual references. Also she even balms men for putting women “in the dark”.

Syntheses

            Cixous paper is like Flynn’s paper. They both talk about woman and men’s in they’re writing and how there perceived in their discourse communities.

Reflection

            I don’t like this writing as much because I really don’t like the sexual references. I feel it’s a little over the top and too much. She talks about women getting thee own voices and not use men’s voices but the sexual comments/references makes her sound as though she has a “male’s voice”, which counteracts her point. Also she never says what a “women’s voice” is but yells about it non stop for use to find it so it doesn’t help the matter.

Alexander

Alexander

-This shows what he would do and go through to be who he wants to be and how people react to it. -This shows how he is happy with all he’s doing and wants to continue but on the other hand he didn’t know if he should continue because of his family. -This provides you with a idea on how to try stepping in another’s shoes mostly the opposite gender. -You get to understand whet exactly he’s wanting to do and were he’s getting at.

-Califia-Rice’s life seemed strange to them, even as they applauded his willingness to undergo hormone treatments and suffer the taunts and harassment of those who do not understand his life. -“When I think that I can continue with this process - get chest surgery and pass as a male – I feel happier than at any other point in my life. And when I think that something will stop me, I become very depressed. (family)” -Virtually assuming another genders perspective, or what you think is another genders perspective for one hour in a classroom may de instructive about many things. -“Instead of trying to discover what makes a written voice distinctly woman’s, or a man’s, I want to focus on how language can be manipulated to make readers believe that they is a gendered self contained in the margins.”

Smitherman

Smitherman

-This shows us a lot of were the English language itself originated from, which I think it is important. -Forming and shifting someone’s norms are in play, transition from “outsider” to a “insider”. -Presenting a cut line picture what they are and aren’t doing. -It contradicting but that’s what makes it good, it shows how they say we should all have statuses there is still some places that don’t when they should. -We have all felt like this at one time of another, when we get a paper back and there nothing really on it, you don’t know how to interpret it or what exactly your suppose to do with it after that.

-the English language itself, didn’t command no respect, for Latin was the lingo of the elite. -Both authorities and norms is based on race and class positions and is simply attempts to make the “outsider” talk like the “insider”. -superimposition of a dialect norm has little to do with power, linguistic versatility, or variety of expression and everything to do with making what one grammarian labeled the “depraved language of common people” -in a country where everybody has status, it’s possible that no one has status -  The paper was returned to the student with only one comment, correct your grammar resubmit. What sheer and utter nonsense

           

Delpit

Delpit

Summary

            Delpit is sending her message out to teachers, about how they do and should teach poor children and of race. She uses stories to try and back up her point on literacy. She also refers to Gee who at some point goes opposite with her points.

Synthesis

            Compares her point with Gee sometime works but other times doesn’t. One instant it doesn’t work is with how she thinks that people can be made to fit into society but on the other hand Gee doesn’t feel the same.

Reflection

            I like how she put stories in it, just like how Malcom X. Also I feel like it proves more of a point too

Flynn

Flynn

Summary

            Flynn writes about women and mean writings mostly. But I also feel as though this talks about how the genders are seen in society, “The mental processes that are involved in considering the abstract and the impersonal have been labeled “thinking” and are attributed primarily to me, wile those that deal with the personal and interpersonal fall under the rubric of “emotion” and are largely relegated to women.”, when I read this it makes me think its saying that society has it a certain view of it all.

           

Synthesis

I feel that Flynn goes through and billed her own synthesis. Through her writing she refers to other people and there writings. As in talking about Carol Gilligan’s In a different voice or like in William Perry’s Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the college years. 

Reflection

            I kind of feel in certain aspect this was serotype. I feel that like in this but I feel that over time society has and hasn’t changed. Women can join the military but there is positions we cant go do, we could become doctors, lawyers, and so on that are more higher up positions in like but were not taken as seriously and we have to work harder then men do at tim

Heilker and Melanie

-I like how it tells when the awareness day came into play and how. -This provides how many children are diagnosed a year and how there isn’t much known about it though. -When you read this you realize how it actually is good to have silence at times. -It pointing out how its part of communication. -It explains more on their speech problems. -Explains how people feel and thinks output of autism.

- April 2. 2008, was the first World Autism Awareness Day, which was voted into existence by the United Nations General Assemble. -“remains on of the greatest mysteries of medicine […] Although autism will be diagnosed in more that 25000 U.S. children this year, scientists and doctors still know very little about the neurological disorder. -about autism really is – and, equally important, on how rhetorical any silence about eurotypicality really is. -Most definitions of rhetoric focus on the role of communication in social interaction. -autism are also legion, what they, too, have in common is a focus on language use in the social realm, a focus on communication in social interaction. -The National Institute of Health defines autism as “a spectrum that encompasses a wide range of behavior” but whose “common features include impaired social interaction, impaired verbal and nonverbal communication, and restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior”

Villanuava

Villanuava

            He talks about stereotypic and racisms form and perspectives. They use stories and poems to give back up to his view. He also sorts through his own self and going through his own things, wile going through and talking bout memories also.

Guide to Primary Research

A Guide to Primary Research for the Discourse Community Ethnography

Generic Interview Questions

·      How long have you been here?

-12 yrs

·      Why are you involved?

-want to help people

·      What do X, Y, and Z words mean?

-Hippa-classified

-“SIA” code-cardiac arrest

-“DOA”-Dead On Arrival

-Repertory arrest- quit breathing but hearts still breathing

-BVM- Bag Valve Mask, helps them breath

-They have a lot of other codes then these once.

·      How did you learn to write A, B, and/or C?

-Patient Report- Summery of what you did with patient on runs/transports, and you lean to write then through you EMT classes.

·      How do you communicate with other people on your team?

-Radio

·      What kinds of texts do you write and read here? memos/emails/notes?

-The patient Reports

·      What distinguishes these texts from writing you do outside this community?

-Because you can’t talk about it too much outside the community because of Hippa.

·      Do you consider yourself a full member of this community?

-Yes always here working

·      Who has authority here and how is it displayed?

-Medic boss applied for boss then gets it, displayed by they know the person is the boss but they’re the same as everyone else.

·      How often do you write?

-They write their reports daily

·      What kinds of texts do you write? Informal or Formal?

-Formal

Specific Interview Questions

·      What types of writing or communicative activities do those in authoritative positions engage in in this community?

-Talk to people, take them on runs, and explain the importance 

·      How did you gain authority in this community?

-Just by being respective to all people you interact with

·      Who has authority here, and where does the authority come from?

-The State of EMT board, they set rules and they all have to bide by them

·      How do the various types of writing you engage in influence your role in this community?

-Talk to people about the importance of 911

Generic Forum/Discourse Analysis

·      What are the shared goals of this community; why does the group exist and what does it do?

-Keep people safe

·      What are the purposes of each of these mechanisms of communication?

-Radio- always has “service” so you can get ahold of each other

·      What kinds of specialized language do group member’s use in their conversation and in their genres?

-Signals or codes-so friends and families don’t get upset

·      Who are the “old-timers” with expertise? Who are the newcomers with less expertise? How do we differentiate between the two among a variety of texts?

-“Old-timer” teaches the new once, and the “newbies” have a “glazed over dear look”

·      How do newcomers learn the appropriate language, genres, and knowledge of the group?

-Classes and old-timers

Specific Forum/Discourse Analysis

·      What kinds of conflicts emerge within the discourse of this community? What prompts these conflicts and who is involved?

-Old-timers teaching the newbies the ropes

·      What are the processes of enculturation and apprenticeship used to help or hinder newcomers in joining?

-Hands on experience by riding along

·      What are the “modes of belonging” that newcomers are attempting to use?

-They think there bad stuff and know everything

·      What sorts of multi-literacies do members of this community possess?

-Different levels of certification require different aspects of data/information/documentation in their reports.

My Questions

·       What are the levels?

-Director

-Asst. Director

-EMT – Paramedic

-EMT - Intermediate

-EMT – Basic

·       Where do you guys do your training?

-We do all our training in house

·       Who do you guys do you dispatching? (People do it or is it electric) 

-Were all trained in dispatching and do it ourselves.

·       Are you guys always running or do you get breaks?

-Yes we get down time between runs


 

Syntheses

Syntheses

            Gleen wrote about how there is double sides, he shows it through the factory farm and how we preserve it as all good and cheery with all the animals happy when in reality there shoved in small spaces and always sick and hurt. In my paper I’m going the same wrought as Gleen, for the most part, about showing the other side of things and helping people see how things really are. With EMT’S you never notice them there and we don’t think about them. When someone say something about EMT’S we just think about people who jump out of the back of a medic truck and hurry get the person in it and take them to the hospital. But there is so much more then that they do and that’s what I’m planning to do is shed some light on their community.

Intro project 3

Intro to Project 3

            When you think about it, there are people who are never acknowledged, they’re never noticed, but always they’re behind the scene or “curtains”, and being taken for granted. EMT’S are such misunderstood and never thought about, which never made since because they’re the once always there on the scene trying to find everyway they can to keep you alive and safe. Lots of times they even give you your breath of life, deliver babies, or even hold us together literally and metaphorically. But are they ever thanked for what they do? No! That’s why I want to do my paper on them, in a sort of behind the scenes way, to show how there community really is and all they do for us.  

Malinowitz

Malinowitz

            She is talking about sexual orientation and how it is appeared in society and how it’s evolved. She talks about her realization of womanist but her mother’s reaction to giving her step father a “girly” sweater.

Project 3 Proposal

Project 3 Proposal

            I would like to do my project three on the EMT discourse community. I have several aunts that work in the field and work together. I feel like that there careers are very important to our community but there don’t get the recognition or appreciation they deserve for all that they do. And that’s why I want to do our project three on their discourse community.

Cover letter for project 2

Cover Letter for English Project 2

Lisa McClain

What I have learned from this project is how anything could be literacy and how everyone can get different experiences or lessons out of different things or the same things. our strongest part of the project is the stories I think because the stories because there so personal. Although my weakness would be in the format of how I put it together. The changes we made in our presentation was a bit of grammar and some more visuals.

Wardle

Wardle

            QD

-I believe it’s a unconscious act. 

            A&E

-Your text should fluctuate with the discourse community that you’re talking to. When I talk to children I would use a simpler language and calming voice, but when I talked to professors I think through what I want to say so it’s not to broad and then they understand exactly what I’m wanting to say. When it comes to the mercy of text I understand because me and one of my friend’s use to always write back and fourth but since I have such bad spelling that I had to always use small vocab and that sort, but when we talked in person I had to try and be carful to not use to big of vocab so she wouldn’t get confused and I wouldn’t be belittling her.

            Meta Moment

-I feel that they referred to authority so much in this because they kind of want you to get the concept and understanding of it. It helps for you to be more aware of your audience and your reenact with them.

Peer Review

 Peer Review for Project 2

    Your summary/synthesis switched from talking as the group then to first person. I really like the set up of it and how you have it all in order. But I think in certain parts should be longer like the conclusion and one of the story. The videos were really nice with your views but I couldn't really find how to see your survey results. I really like it though its really good.

Glee

Glee

Lisa McClain

            Summary

Glee was talking about how grammar isn’t everything.  It depends on the situation and how thing go about it. Glee uses the examples of the two women at a job inter view. He says “what is important is not language, and surely not grammar, but saying (writing)-doing-being-valuing-believing combinations.” Also we have to “hold the right values, beliefs, and attitudes”. At one point he goes on about Discourse and how it’s a “identity kit”, basically about our rules of how it all goes.

Swales

Swales

Lisa McClain

Summary

-All he basically wrote about was discourse community. What they are, the rules to be one, and all of that.

            Syntheses

-In the first paragraph of the reading does that for you, it goes through and tells you the syntheses. They even talk about Porter who we have read about.  

Gleen

Gleen

Lisa McClain

-It gives you a idea of what you’re going to read. -Shows the understanding of life and nature of people through history. -When people see agriculture they don’t think of it as bad and abuse associated with it as the do when they see the word industry. -You see the mirroring or as in how they actually see things. -You see behind the curtains, how things are actually perceived. -This shows how they try and cover it all up. -How animals get the short end of it and the factories don’t care, but only care about the money. -This makes you worry if not wonder along the lines how far humans are willing to go and what they would sacrifice for there own greedy self’s.

-People historically have used other animals as resources. -they live with, hunt alongside, know, understand, and respect both the land and the other animals they exploit. -industry could set off environmental warning bells, whereas agriculture is generally understood as a safe, natural practice. -Piglets, if born too small, are called “runt” and are “euthanized”. -This involves, as Dunayer points out, holding a piglet by their back legs and slamming their head against the floor. -Although this is not a practice unique to factory farming the point is that calling it euthanasia hides the violence and suffering inflicted on these animals behind a euphemism that renders the practice humane or sterile. -For the factory farm, as in other corporations, the bottom line is profit. Animals’ welfare can be traded off when production rates remain high regardless animals’ poor health and living conditions. -This scenario raises considerable ethical questions about how much, as human beings, we are willing to manipulate our environment and, as important, exploit other animals for gastronomical pleasure.