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Most success in Hero Narratives occurs when the author has gained self-confidence in their reading and/or writing ability. Taylor Lacey’s Literacy Narrative “The Series I Started” is a great example of a Heroic Identity. Taylor, when he was younger, spent most of his time outside helping his parents and once he got to kindergarten he was placed in special classes because he was falling behind. He continued with these special…

Overcoming situations by oneself is the biggest part of the heroic identity. Most success in Hero Narratives occurs when the author has gained self-confidence in their reading and/or writing ability. The idea of how sponsors relate in Hero Narratives is a small addition to the original ideas of Williams and Brandt. They thought they had covered all of what a hero narrative is but I believe that most Heroes do…

My peers are suggesting to me that I try to find evidence to either add or challenge Williams and Brandt with their original ideas. Some points that I have not added to my paper would be the idea of what sponsors mean to Hero narratives. Sponsors are very important according to Brandt and Hero Narratives usually never have sponsors. Maybe Hero Narratives think they are too good for help or…

Sean Emmert Dr. Cripps ENG110I 10/10/18 Paper 2 There are many variables that play in to the analysis of a discourse. The main focus is allocated around the seven building tasks that James Paul Gee talks about. The seven are significance, practices/activities, identities, relationships, politics, connections, and sign systems and knowledge. They are the main elements of a discourse, and once you have become fluent in each aspect of the…

If you take a closer look at Gee and IMRaD for similarities there are a few important ones involving discourses. Gee talks a lot about the elements that make up a discourse. The elements of a discourse vary for each one but overall they are based on our acts, beliefs, and sayings. Gee explains it as  “What we say, do, and are in using language enacts practices. At the same time,…

Significance “The abstract should be definitive rather than descriptive ; i.e., it should give facts rather than say the paper is ‘‘about’’ something. Since an abstract will usually be read by an average of 100 times more people than will read the full paper,”(17) Nair and Nair make the abstract a significant aspect of what scientific writing is about. It is a mini version of the paper and it is…

  Helps me understand about how scientists write to their audience and what to expect.   The main parts to rhetorical reading and I was trying to make a connection to Gee and how there could be a discourse for rhetorical reading. Putting autonomous texts in to my own words, which helps me understand more clearly. It also seemed important because it was one of the questions.   Here I…

Introduction- The only things that I decided to change was I added more background information about the two topics of Gee and Cuddy. I did this to better introduce my sources. I also added more basic ideas to try and make my thesis more clear. Evidence and Explanations- I added a lot of explanations because I realized that all of my quotes did not really make sense because I just…

Haas talks about how at the college level in order for students to become literate you have to be able to learn how to go about texts within a disciplinary field. Haas means that as a student you have to have to knowledge of the common elements that fall in to that disciplinary field. “One of the things students of science must become privy to, as part of their disciplinary…