Brandon's ePortfolio

Significance:  Practices: “by the time she left college she had come to a greater awareness of the rhetorical, contingent nature of both the activities and discourses she participated in…

Haas discuses being literate throughout college and behaving different towards texts. Haas talks about becoming fully literate at a college level, and a person must learn how to…

Examples of rhetorical relationships and motives to a person. Relationship to academic discourse and its growth of development over years Repetition of Rhetorical throughout the text, along with…

Introduction: In my introduction I changed a couple things. Mainly just rewording sentences so it flowed more, and changed up part of my intro hook. I was missing…

Gee states, “various Discourses which constitute each of us as persons are changing and often are not fully consistent with each other; there is often conflict and tension…

A big concern for me coming into college, was the different writing level. I know my high school did a great job of getting me prepared to write…

“In our view, then, the best academic writing has one underlying feature: it is deeply engaged in some way with other people’s views” (Graff and Birkenstein 3). The…

Gee’s theorems on his studies of discourses are interesting. The first Discourse is described as the permanent discourse. This is the discourse that is almost a requirement for…

Describes the difference between non dominant discourses and dominant discourses about how each is a secondary discourse.