Malinowitz

questions for discussion and journaling

2) I feel that is is just as important to have lesbian and gay discourses in the classroom because in today's world gays and lesbian's can be more open about who they are. So it is only fair to have these discourses in the classroom along with heterosexual. It can allow for a better understanding of all discourses and help people to try and keep an open mind at least in the classroom, regardless of ones view or beliefs.

5) Sojourner Truth deconstructed the category of "woman" by proving from her own life as an African American Woman that woman are not weak and do not need catered too. She worked as hard as any man, if not harder as a slave and had 13 children that she bonded with and then lost. She had as much right to vote as anyone. I feel that she not only deconstructed the category of woman but she reconstructed it. She showed that woman can be strong and independent, not fragile as once viewed.

11) To me the term queer means someone who is not heterosexual and is used as a slang term.The definition has not changed for me. However I was surprised to see that it is used quite openly as a term to describe homosexual's rather then as just a slang term.

applying and exploring ideas

2) I have known the most of my friends since grade school. We all grew up in the same small town together. We all sort of speak our own language in a sense with one another. Everyone has a nickname for each other. I feel that I can be myself around them. I guess that maybe when I went into the army, I was around all different kinds of people from different places. I guess may be to an extent my language was silenced then. After awhile though I became part of a new community with a different language.

Meta moment

I feel he would think the most important idea is to at least try and have an open mind. Lesbian's and gays are both types of discourses.Views that we have are influenced a lot by society. So if for just a short time we can put those influences aside, then we may learn something new.

Materiality and Genre: Devitt, Reiff, and Bawarshi

Questions for Discussion and Journaling

2) The Genres of the 2 classes are different. In a composition you can choose a genre to write about that you may be familiar with. In art history or another class the paper would be based on a particular discourse community genre. This may not be as easy to research and therefore as an outsider to that community, it may not be fully understood and interpreted wrong. The conflict arises when as an outsider you try to understand the genre of a particular discourse community without having full knowledge of that group.

3) Examples of genre sets at Ohio University I feel would be notes taken in class and emails to instructors and other classmates. Papers that are written as assignments and exams given by instructors would also be examples of genre sets.  Peer reviews done in class would also be a genre set along with instructor feedback. I am a part of one or more of these genre sets on a daily basis.

Applying and Exploring Ideas

3)By researching through the ethnographic field world,you can focus on the general and the more particular areas of a specific culture. Basically not just analysing a culture through reading about it.Rather focusing more on communication and behavior, the lived experience of the culture. This can be done by gathering samples of genres and analyzing them.

Meta Moment

I believe ethnographic field work is the better choice to understanding discourse communities. In a sense you  can infiltrate the community by analysing genres and doing interviews with members of a discourse community. In doing this you get a better sense of the communication and purpose of the community. Where as if you just read about them you are getting the view of someone else of that community which may or may not be an accurate interpretation.

Project 3 proposal

Discourse Community Ethnography Proposal

I am going to write about airplane pilots as a Discourse Community. This is a community that I am working towards being in, as I am currently in flight school. I feel that this community meets all 6 of the requirements written by John Swales.They have a common set of goals, which is to transport cargo and passengers safely from one place to another.They have a method of communication, whether it be by radio communication to air traffic controllers,or in-person discussions with fellow pilots.They have participatory mechanisms that are put into place. As pilots, they are monitored by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration). Pilots need to have mandatory routine physicals, to ensure that they are able to do their job safely.Pilots also have many genres that they put to use.For example  monitoring instruments during flight and filing flight plans.They use a certain language or lexis so to speak that unless you were a pilot you would not know the meaning of the terms. For instance "down wind" and "base" are terms used when landing an airplane. Lastly they have a threshold level of members. The minimum age to be a private pilot  is 16. You have to retire at age 65 as a pilot. In order to obtain your private pilots license you need 65 hours of flight time and to be a commercial pilot you need 1500 hours to work for the airlines. I feel that in doing research on pilots as a Discourse Community, it will give me a chance to to talk with other pilots and get a better understanding of what it means to be a pilot.

Wardle

1.  Engagement, Imagination, and Alignment.
Engagement would be when Alan started his job and sent emails to the staff and faculty.
Imagination would be the way Alan saw himself as "GOD" when in reality he was just a tool for the staff and faculty.
Alignment would be what Alan did not do as far as trying to get along because of his imaged job title.  It would be hard to give up what you were taught lust to have someone else tell you that its wrong now do it this way or its the highway.

3.  Because he imagined himself as something he wasn't.  So in his mind everyone else was wrong and he was right.  Well when he was hired they should have explained his job title in more detail then maybe he wouldn't have had his "God" complex.

5.  I agree with Gee and Wardle both.  Because when he started his job he wasn't in the dominate discourse.  And Wardle because of his imagined position in the work place.

Gee

3 I think that a Discourse is your society and a discourse is the way you fit into that Discourse society. Yes it makes sense to me if you are say on a construction job (Discourse) you have foremen and workers.  If you are a foremen then you are a dominate discourse and if you are a worker then that would be more of a non dominate discourse. 

5  I think that it means if you think you know it and you act like you belong then most people will think that you do.

11 I feel that a metaknowledge is trying to learn something and at the same time figuring out what you already knew. 

3 Dear whoever cares A Discourse is a group that you belong to. a dominate discourse is when you have mastered the Discourse to make money.  A non dominate discourse is when you have almost mastered the Discourse but you didn't make much or very little with no social gains.  I feel that you the teacher can do only as much as the student.

4  Ok take construction for instance a union contractor is for a safe work environment and a fair and equal wage.  while a non union contractor is there to do the job as fast as possible no matter what the cost (safety) and will only pay employees a fraction of what they are worth and pocket the rest.Thats why there are more accidents on non union sites compared to a union site

glenn

1. I am thinking of the chick-fil-a commercials. I think that they are funny and that they are directing there ads toward younger generations.  I personalydont feel that they are offensive. I am still going to eat meat so its okay in my opinion.
2.  I feel that my personal experience with farm animals is pretty good.  I had several friend who lived on farms as I grew up. 


1. I feel that she grew up in a city. that she really didn't have any relationship to farm animals. She may have had a dog or cat.  That's why she has, in my opinion a more Peta type attitude. As far as the discourse I think that she is very informative. I think that overall she kinda knows what shes talking about.  

2.   I picked Oscar Myer.  They are a farm factory. They tried to hide this by redirecting most of there advertisements.  They are not forth coming about what they do but then again for someone who wanted to find out about what they do it wasn't very hard.  Yes the really tried to be a family farm. they played themselves as a kids petting farm and really didn't talk much about what went on at the factory.

4.  I feel that the very wealthy do this all the time. They have servants who to them aren't people but an entity that just cleans after them. they don't know there names they don't acknowledge that they are people.  

lab work project 2

topic
    Effects of reading to a fetus or infant

question
    Does reading to a fetus or infant cause them to be more literate at an early age

    Well a am pretty sure my parents did this for me but i think i will use my daughter as an example.  I have a 2 yo and o know that during my wife's pregnancy we both would take turns reading to her.  We would also put head phone over my wife's belly to let her listen to music.  whether or not that worked that worked i don't know but she started talking at like 6 or 7 months.  One could argue that it was the reading or the music or that girls develop quicker that boys who really knows but that's what we are going to try and figure out with this project.

Well lets see I really dont know where to start. I guess as a kid my dad like working with wood. We used to do drywall and build things and I guess thats why  got into construction when I got out of the army. I was an airbourne mechanic in the army I lerned to over come adversitiy, how to work on vehicles.  I got to see some different cultures.  I spent a year in Korea that had to have some kind of literacy to me.  Anyway after the military I started warking with a gaurdrail company out of columbus did that for a couple of years. That taught me that road construction was very hard work and that not everyone is capable of the work that goes on in construction. After that I worked as an electrician for almost 6 years that was a very rewarding job. Some of the thing that you do as an electrician are pulling wire running conduit wireing up light fixtures, switches, wiring up panel boxes and so on you get the picture. Then I became a union carpenter I worked on bridges, in power plants, in dams and in office building. There is such a wide range in the jobs that you can do.  You can do dry wall you can do concrete work, metal studs, rigging, pile driving, and scaffolding. I did a little of them all but my favorite was scaffolding.  When I first started to build scaffold I didn't even know what the material was they would tell me to go get something and I would get the wrong thing but after a while I figured it out and became one of the best in my local hall.  The challenge in building scaffold is the layout not everyone can layout a scaffold. The actual building is not that hard just think of it as a big erector kit that you had as a kid its basically the same thing.  So I guess that I owe that to my dad. I beleive that has been a big literary influence on my life. But as for now I think the my cousin has been a big influence on me. He has been a pilot for about 20 years and I have talked to him for acoule years now and (with lack of work thanks to Obama) I have decided to go back to school at 38 to become a pilot myself.  I think that someday that will make my daughter a lot more proud of me that being an unemployed constuction worker. Well I hope this gives you a little insight on my influences in my life, and the gumtion to stay in school to better your lives.

Wysocki

I think that it works really good. It helps you to kinda see what she wants to say.  I mean did you read this article it was very hard to read and kinda boring.  So with the pics and highlighted areas it sorta broke up where your eyes would focus between text and the text in the pics.  I thought that it worked.
    I think its like bernhart says because you dont want to muck that would make it more cartoonist so to speak.  With low text visual she keeps it more professional

Yes beauty is the eye of the beholder.  Not eveyone has thesame taste in art or what ever the subject is.  No I dont agree with Kant not all things are universally beautifull. Somethings that I like there are probably 10 othe people who dont loke it. So how can that be universalor inherently beautiful. Well I guess I already answered the last part just now.

    I think that it says to get a good idea acrross that yiu need good visual composition wheter it be good or bad publicity. Bad publicity is still publicity. 

 Yes.  Take Playboy for example some people would say that it is art.  That the beauty of the female body is a canvas all its own.  Where others who might be offended might think of this as pornography that they are just exploiting women.

Baron

Discussion and Journaling

2  I don't feel this is what Baron is saying. He seems to be in favor of computer technology and feels that it is very important to his own career as a writer. Baron comments that it is beyond our own imagination what advances computer will make. As for communication in the future he will not make predictions about what computers will or won't do for literacy. He depends on the new technology of writing such as computers and feels that the old writing practices constrict him. Also he feels that we must not forget that writing it self is a technology.

4  Some examples of technologies like the pencil are: writing, the telegraph, computer,typewriter, and telephone.

Like the pencil, writing and the computer went through similar stages of technical spread as Baron calls it. At first they are seen as impractical maybe and people were not willing to use them. Once they were accepted then sometimes the availability of them were restricted. Eventually writing and the computer became more available and know and then eventually these technologies expanded and then began to be used. The cost of these new technologies decrease also increasing availability and use. When theybegin to mimic similar technologies then the spread begins. They then become their own technology and not just a version of an earlier technology and this gives new possiblity to new inventions.

The pencil was not initially made to be a writing device. A lead point stylus was first used to make lines for measurement marking.

Writing was not first invented for transcription of speech at first but for record keeping short hand.

The first main frame computer was first used to do calculations  with numbers.

Applying and Exploring

3 Advantages  of keeping records would be for important documents that would need to be saved or copied for future reference. Or to go back to a document to edit at a later date. Also another reason for keeping records is to ensure that it is authentic and not forged.
Reasons for not keeping records would be saving a password online to use a t a later date. Or important personal information that people could get access to and use illegally.

The telephone I feel would be an example of a communication technology that could be considered writing. The telephone combines aspects of speaking and writing.

Meta Moment

Yes it is easier to understand writing and to know. writing has not always been what it is today. it has changed and adapted just like other communication technologies. 

X hooks

I feel that his intended adiunce is younger troubled minoritys for the most part he is trying to tell the younger generations not to be suppresed by the white man
we know this because history tells us that he was an avid civil rights actovist

Elijah Muhammond , charelstown prison, Norfolk prison, Bimbi, the dictionary, Nat Turner, that's good enough.  Muhammad he was someone that in influenced him that he would later preach for.  Bimbi he was a well spoken and literate person for being in prison and X wanted to emulate but couldn't so that's where the dictionary came into play if it wasn't for that then he would probably never became the person he did.

Yes i believe he is right.  In prison (so Ive heard) that inmate if they want can take care of a college education for the ones that are motivated they can rehabilitate them selves with reading and become a better person in society where us as real students have to much other stuff going on

It would mean a lot with all the medias out there anyone can b literate all he would have done was to go on CNN or msnbc Facebook the list goes on



Its hard to say what the teach would say were two different people.  I think that the idea of the story is to bring bad kids to an understanding that with an education that you could tun your life around for the better

                                                                Hooks
                                               
                                                               
Yes i think that everyone does this at some point in time.  Its not that we are lying about those things.  Have you ever had one of those dreams where you swore was real. I think that you subconcience takes over sometime and you just cant tell dream from reality so now its a memory that didn't happen.

Well at the beginning she was having trouble with the "betrayal" of the family secrets.  As she talks to her siblings later on then she realized that they all had difrent memories of the same events.. she decided that it would be better to store the memories in a safe place so she wrote them down to not ever forget. 

Yes her goal comes to life by the end of the text and she has in a way preserved her memories. 

Because when you write it down you usually use facts and your memories sometimes suppresses so when you go back and read it then it sounds like someone else wrote it when in reality there yours.

Brandt

Discussion and Journaling

1 Brandt defines literacy sponsors as those who don't necessarily support or assist. They have their own individual reasons for supporting types of literacy. Literacy sponsors can range from people to institutions to circumstances. They can empower as well as dis-empower. They can help people to become literate as well as prevent them from doing so.

2 Brandt writes that sponsors enter into a reciprocal relationship[ with the sponsored.They have something to gain rather it be money or just by association with them. She feels that due to the abundance of commercial sponsoring in the 20th century from magazines to radio to essay contests,this turned the ability to read and write into a vast array of resources which led to the abundance of commercial sponsorship.

4  I believe that by stratified she is referring to how literacy is classified and how people fit into the different classifications of literacy. By raising the stakes I feel she is talking about keeping high standards so that certain expectations are met. It helps to keep things competitive. This helps to possibly force new literacy requirements into the stratified systems and also get rid of old ones that are not so appealing to the sponsor.

Applying and Exploring ideas

1 I feel that my primary literacy sponsors were my teachers and coaches in school. I looked up to my football coaches because not only were they there to just coach us in football, they gave us a basis for our lives once we graduated. They taught us discipline and respect. They also taught us that if you want something bad enough you have to work hard for it.That not only applied to winning football games but our lives once we graduated.

2 I can not think of a time where I have had literacy sponsors withhold information from me or force certain literacy's on me.

media moment

I feel that Brandt's article is relevant for understanding the concepts of literacy and multiple literacy's.It applies to having a greater awareness of the forces that have shaped us a writers and readers.