- Graff and Birkenstein (They Say/I Say) explain that most writers (certainly of academic essays) are responding to what others have said, and they tell us to look for what motivates these writers. By entering a conversation, according to them, a writer has to represent what’s been said and move beyond it in some way.
So, what are some of the views Gee responds to? Remember, he may name them explicitly; they may sometimes be implied, or they may be “something ‘nobody has talked about’” (Graff & Birkenstein 179).
Gee response to the “simulated jobs” He talks about the difference between the two welfare women and how the approached the job interview situation. One women approached it by basically with all together the wrong grammar and dialect. while the other women approached the interview with the right direct but used the wrong message she put her self down while talking up the managerial staff.
- Look specifically at paragraphs 3-4 in which Gee discusses Akinnaso and Ajirotutu’s research. Use evidence from the text to explain why Gee is critical of their analysis. If he doesn’t agree with their assessment, why might he give them so much space and so early in his own essay?
Gee does agree but he also disagrees he talks about how both women used proper grammar but in the wrong situations. There is no wrong discourse only the situation you choose to use it in. The author gives them so much space because it is to early in the essay to start making hard claims without more evidence.
One of my comments is about discourses and what it means in the writing. This helps me annotate father because i understand the definition of the word.
Another comment is about literacy studies and when it is used. Cognitive and social practices.
I annotated in two different colors facts and claims.
