Tone: The tone here is eager and
enthusiastic. It makes the reader think of the power that one can have by only
having a voice. The academic tone it’s used here by mentioning and highlighting
the very structured topics makes this paper entertaining and interesting while
being persuasive also with the choice of word. By mentioning the words success
and power it creates a strong interesting vibe throughout the whole reading,
which is why, it is intriguing to a reader.
Jargon: Contract - A
written or spoken agreement, especially one concerning
employment, sales, and/or
tenancy.
Success - The
favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the
accomplishment of one's goals.
Grades - In
education is the process of applying standardized measurements of varying
levels of achievement in a course.
Some of the primary
concerns of discipline start with the contract in which our teachers/professors
introduces the value of our writing by making us comprehend that grading is
just a way of reaching success if not perfection by experiencing that power.
Even if students don’t meet their expectations of the outcomes of lessons, even
then students will learn that words are power and that writing is a powerful
source. That is the idea of what the diction used in “Gee’s ideas of discourse”
indicate that our primary concerns of discipline should be.
Structure: The
introduction of this piece introduces a topic and states a powerful issue that
is backed up by the explaining of every example that holds the evidence of how
the issue is uprising from this piece of writing. In other words the Intro
situates an issue with examples backed up with the explaining of how these
examples are contributing to the issue. The introduction also creates a
questioning in the readers trapping them into the reading having them on top of
each word. The body explains the key examples of this like critical teaching,
criteria, grading, reflections, and most important and also the most mentioned
and explained in Gee’s ideas, the student-teacher contract. The body also makes
the ideas understandable and reasonable to interpret. It also makes us picture
how it all falls down on one main idea and fit together. The conclusion states
a big idea of why the whole discourse Gee is talking about works and how it
will.
Language Use: Gee
uses words that make it sound confident and believable. Gee writes the
text using the words we, us,
our, etc. Making the paper sound personal and copying the vibe of a one-on-one conversation
up close. The text and the words
used also make the paper sound argumentative and descriptive of in what way is
it that everything works. It mentions causes and the effect. Examples of that
would be the Contracts and its outcomes. There is short sentences that are direct to the
point, but there is also mixture of long and complex
text. The paragraphs are perfectly sized. They are long enough to stay on track of what is being said during the whole
topic. They help the flow
of this paper and make the readers stay focus.
Quote: “It
might seem contradictory or even laughable to talk about pleasure in a
discussion about grading, but contracts do make us and our students happier.”
This quote seems to fit what the piece overall rhetoric is or at least comes
close to be. It is by saying that even thought grading might mean to judge
skills and criticize work; it also helps if you do it positively making a
self-contradicting idea.
Template: Contracts
don’t solve all our grading problems. But they enable us to more
directly acknowledge our institutional power as teachers
and to use that power productively by focusing students'
attention on writing, and not grading.
Studying
doesn’t help all our detailed abilities. But they enable us to
more directly recognize our insight skills as professionals
and to use that knowledge constructively by directing my
attention on succeeding, not just trying.
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