Significance:
- “Keep in mind and respect the general level of the readers’ understanding and familiarity with your procedures. For example, in a manuscript for a journal targeted at researchers in biophysical aspects of agroforestry, it is not necessary to narrate all minute details of how materials were selected, drawn, prepared, and so on.” (Nair & Nair 19)
- I thought this was a significant quote because it applies to every paper you right. Know your audience, and do not overfill with details. Write your paper with a targeted audience in mind so you can cater to them.
- “In order to understand, use, and judge scientific content students need a meta-understanding of the motives of science and scientists and the history of scientific concepts” (Haas 45)
- I chose this as a significant moment because it so easily related to Gee’s idea on what a Discourse is. To understand scientific literature, you need to understand everything around it, like the history behind it. To join a Discourse, you need to be completely surrounded by the beliefs and values of that Discourse, and to talk, behave, and write about it.
Practices
- “By the time she had left college, she had come to a greater awareness of the rhetorical, contingent nature of her chosen field, biology”(Haas 46)
- I used this as an example of practice because to leave college in a greater knowledge, it means that she had to put in the effort. She had to practice the skills to be a biologist.
- “I hypothesized that in her reading practices Eliza might demonstrate more rhetorical sophistication than she would in her writing where more production skills must be managed”(Haas 47)
- Eliza is demonstrating more rhetorical sophistication than in her writing. This showed that Eliza was picking up different skills at different times based on how much she practiced them.
- “Because the Abstract is a short version of the full paper, it contains a mixture of tenses representing the tense used in reporting the respective sections of the paper”(Nair & Nair 17)
- The Abstract is a summarized version of your research paper, it must contain every major aspect of your paper but condensed. It is limited to 250 words and needs to stand on its own. Many need to practice to get their Abstract just right
Connections
- “When readers approach a discourse situation, they presumably have some knowledge or representation of the participants, including the identity, knowledge, and background of author intended readers.”(Haas 48)
- I connected this to Gee, you must know everything around Discourse if you want to be a part of one.
- “The section pulls everything together and shows the importance and value of the work and is, therefore, the most innovative and difficult part of the paper to write”(Nair & Nair 21)
- This quote shows the importance of connection in a research paper. Without connections, we cannot create a discussion without connection multiple sources together.
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