- I have been working well with Gee’s concepts, and connecting them to Haas, Nair, and the IMRaD cheat sheet. I do need to work on more in depth explanations and connecting two quotes together, but the connections themselves are there.
- I am doing a good job organizing my essay. It’s working well because the organization gives me space to introduce the quotes, explain them, and connect them to one another. Although I have to work on the connections, I do have space for it because of the organization.
- “A large part of scientific Discourse is the formatting of scientific papers. One of the “things” that Gee mentions is Practices or Activities. These practices are “socially recognized and institutionally or culturally supported endeavor(s) that usually involves sequencing or combining actions in certain specified ways” (Gee, 32). In saying this, Gee is saying that every Discourse has specific actions that occur, which help distinguish whether or not someone is in a Discourse or not. In scientific Discourse, one such practice is IMRAD, or the formatting of all scientific papers. Using IMRaD “indicates a pattern or format rather than a complete list of headings or components of research papers” (Nair & Nair, 13). Although it isn’t a defined outline, IMRAD is the format for most, if not all, scientific papers, making it a practice of the Discourse, as Gee defined it.” I need to explain more about how they connect/how the pattern/format helps scientists recognize what’s going on.
- Science Discourse is one of the more structured forms of Discourse. It relies heavily on organization and concise and precise documentation. It is because of this structure that the Discourse is so successful, and so well connected all over the world.
