Month: March 2017

Printmaking can be considered as a dominant Discourse. “Dominant Discourses are secondary Discourse’s the mastery of which, at a particular place and time, brings with it the (potential) acquisition of social “goods” (money, prestige, status, etc.)” (Gee 8). Although many artists produce print editions leisurely, there is the potential of money, prestige, and status. My art teacher here at UNE has a print shop in Portland where she produces new editions every week. There, she sells her work. As an artist in Portland I am almost sure she has some sort of status there. Then of course, famous printmakers can acquire a lot of money and most definitely prestige from their work. Like me though, I do this for fun. It takes a lot of work but the outcome of the editions is usually worth the time. From all the focus you put into it makes the end result that much better. Even I as an intermediate printmaker could sell my prints and make money from them. In the Printing Discourse, most anyone can get money or acquire prestige and status from it if you later become a master.

There are many different terms used during the printing process. There are many common words used such as ink, brayer, and edition that are used in completely different ways than most people know. In order to understand how printing works, apprentices of the Discourse must learn what these words mean and how to use the different tools included. Saying connects directly to being. What a printer says and how they say it will help identify where they stand, if they are experienced or not. There are many different terms to learn and that are used before, during, and after the process. If you are actually in the Discourse, you will know and understand the meanings of the different vocabulary.

Time on Task: 45 Minutes

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If you were to look at snowboarding you can pin it as a secondary or dominant discourse depending how you approach snowboarding. “Secondary Discourses are learned through social institutions (ie. school, church, work, etc.). Dominant Discourses allow for the acquisition of social goods and status points.”( Gee ?)  Many event like: The X games; Burton Open; The Winter Olympics; or Dew tour are very popular and well known by everyone. The riders that compete in these competitions are considered professional snowboarders or rookies. They also make a living of snowboarding through competing and through sponsorship’s. For example:”rbes Magazine estimates that in 2008, snowboarding star Shaun White made $9 million in sponsorship earnings from Burton, Hewlett-Packard, Oakley, Red Bull and Target. Even top snowboarders rarely top $100,000 in annual prize money, so product promotions and sponsorship’s are the real source of income.”(Duff 1) So when gee says that to be a dominate discourse you need to have a status point as well as social goods, Being a professional snowboarder allows you to have a status point as well as making money annually. On the flip side, snowboarding can also fall  in the category of secondary discourse. For example: “If you’re an experienced snowboarder, you can take advantage of the high-adrenaline cliff-jumping classes and expert-level chutes. Clinics and classes are designed for middle-of-the-road snowboarders who want to learn to turn with more precision, and if you’ve never snowboarded, you can choose private or group instruction with a certified instructor in a day class or multi-day clinic.”(Seaton 1) Every ski resort that you go to, they have experts that hold lessons that range from beginner to expert. also many mountains have there own ski/snowboard school that practice every day after school during the season.

When looking at the relationship between saying/writing and saying/doing in snowboarding it connects together really well. For saying/writing it is stating terms and language that are connected with snowboarding. Terms like, heel side, toe side, nose press, tail press, boots bindings and etc. When looking at saying/doing this is putting those saying/writing terms to use in a action or practice. Also you could say that the saying/writing is explaining how the saying/doing action is being done. for example, “The heel edge is a harder turn then on toe edge. Make sure to be going at a comfortable speed, and the faster you go the better chances of not losing balance. Remember though , it will take time to get used to the speed.” ( bryceronie 6)  so looking at this its telling you how to preform the action which would be the saying/writing part of it. For the saying/doing part you would actually go out and preform this action or practice.

 

2hrs

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Artifacts: #1 http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/diy-art-how-to-create-a-linocut-print-165526

Analysis WKST: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mnsikG7GA67SbzQbfssXtoOkk7EXiJ2N6NWHpu0y9sQ/edit

#2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRSWYefbdSM

Analysis WKST: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11EFL7nHfnFVtZNLfc7rBumE79RvuOAw9m-YMGNFIaOw/edit?usp=sharing

This video has a lot of important terms used when printing. With this video, as the woman talks about the four main types of artistic printing, I could explain a little more in depth and what some the words she is using means.

Printmaking is an extremely time consuming process. It takes carving mediums and a little bit of ink to create beautiful artistic editions. It is easy to become an expert in printing because of how much focused time it requires. First you make a design you are interested in and transfer it on a medium. Next, you choose from many carving tools(depending upon what you are working on) to carve the medium. Lastly you roll out ink onto the medium of choice and use wet cotton paper to transfer your image through a printing press. You can quickly fall in love with this step by step process because of how beautiful your prints come out. Most printmakers take a lot of pride in their editions due to the fact of how much work goes into it.

Time on Task: 2 Hours

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1. In my discourse of dentistry it can be proven that it is a dominant discourse. Gee indicates that it is “dominant Discourses are secondary Discourses the mastery of which, at a particular place and time, brings with it the (potential acquisition of social “good”, money, prestige, status)”(8). As a dentist in a medical field there is a level of respect that is given from a people outside of that discourse, which would show that a dentist has a status. Which can also be shown in the in the article of “A Day in the life of a dentist” when it explains “you are there to be the doctor who diagnoses, the friend who listens and cares, the psychologist who understands, the mechanic who fixes, the artist who recreates and designs, the manager who leads” (Nguyen, 2). This status of  a doctor shows that you have a set of responsibilities that are expected from a patient when they chose to become your patient, which while bring you social goods. Other people will hear about how great you are as  a doctor when you display good qualities as a dentist. Also it is known that the more patients you have the more successful you are and can bring prestige.
2. Gee defines Discourses as “saying (writing)-doing-being-valuing-believing combinations” (6), in my discourse I see all of those combinations being shown. Although I do see the valuing is being shown the most throughout this discourse. The reason I chose this combination is that a dentist has to have value in order to demonstrate the best possible doing and saying tasks of their discourse. The value needs to first come from the dentist finding interest in the knowledge that they are demonstrating in daily procedures. If they don’t understand how valuable every part of their job is can effect a patient emotionally and physically. Although if a dentist is successful at the practice they are demonstrating through language with the knowledge they have can allow a patient to have a god procedure. The result of a good appointment can also bring value to the dentist name, for the reason that other clients will have pride in their dentist to talk highly of them. Also a dentist needs to have value in his and her clients end product, because that is his or her name on the line. Nguyen says it himself “Every job has its stressors, and dealing with people will always be a challenge, but I love the precision of a job well done. Seeing a patient’s new smile warms my heart, and all my worries drift away” (2). That end result of a successful smile is why he struggled through hard class and takes on long days. It because he find his value in the results of his clients.
3. In this discourse there are many sign systems that are needed to actively participate in this discourse. This sign systems are known as languages that are used throughout the discourse to show that they are fluent. There are many terms that need to be understood in order to understand what others are saying in the specific discourse. If you are not fluent  in the way a dentist talks then you will clearly be lost, because the way a dentist talks is very specific. If you are not apart of a dental discourse then you may not understand what the routine is “cleanings, cleanings, fillings, check-up, review and a treatment plan consult” (Nguyen 2). To keep up with the dentist day then being fluent in all of the possible procedure and terms are needed, so that way time isn’t wasted trying to explain thing that should already be known. Not knowing all the terms a dentist use, or the procedure will the show that you are not apart of this dominant discourse. Information once learned properly can be transferred through really any health discourse because the guidelines are pretty similar with terms and procedures. Although not  knowing certain things in a particular discourse can hold someone up from understand something. As Meru states “think the most crucial part of orthodontics is a wide knowledge of the literature, as well as mechanics and physics such that I can plan cases and set them up for success from the beginning. Hand skills are also very important in orthodontics” (1). This indicates that you do need a wide range of knowledge in different thing in order to be successful in this discourse. Lacking any information, or engagement can cause there to be roadblocks, because information is always up and coming in the health field. Not knowing new trends can effect a doctor from diagnosing certain case as stated, “orthodontics is advancing all the time, and in most recent years we have seen an increase in the use of skeletal anchorage, also known as mini implants. These have helped to replace the use of hated appliances such as headgear and large bulky appliances” (1). Without staying in touch with new advancement would cause patients to not get the best treatment. Therefor lacking to be fluent in the discourse would not staying engaged, not have proper knowledge, and not knowing a routine of a day in dentistry.
4. Time on task: 2hrs and a half hours ishhh
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We understand from Gee that a Discourse may be primary, secondary, dominant, or non-dominant. Where do you locate your chosen Discourse in that framework? In your response, engage with a specific passage from Gee that defines/explains that kind of Discourse and  attempt to provide some evidence (from your artifacts) to support your interpretation.  If no single category fits, might you have a Discourse we might consider “hybrid”? Might that enable you to ADD TO or CHALLENGE Gee’s categories?

I would say that my discourse of hockey is a secondary discourse. The reason why I think that hockey is my secondary discourse is because a secondary discourse is  “learned through social institutions”. With hockey, we participate as a team everyday and we have to make time in our schedule because its very important to us. The reason that its not a primary discourse is because were not doing it for a living. Hockey isn’t our job that we get paid for to make a living. If hockey was to be my primary discourse I would have to be considered a professional.

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The relationship between my secondary discourse and the combination of doing,being,valuing and believing is many things. Once you start playing hockey, you get involved with all of these trends as time goes on. Some examples of the combinations would be the doing phase. Everyone knows that one of the doing phase is to score more goals than the other team. The being part for hockey is that every team is too only dress 20 players and three goalies. Something that most people in hockey value is that, it is one of the fastest flowing sports in the world and takes a lot of skill to play. These are just a few examples of these combinations relate to most people involved in hockey. I believe that if you are passionate about the sport of hockey, then you will know most of these combinations.

 

Time: 2 hours

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Being a veterinarian (I believe) qualifies as a Dominant Discourse because it is who a person is, what they do for a living, and brings upon prestige and social goods. Gee defines a Dominant Discourse as: “Dominant Discourses are secondary Discourses the mastery of which, at a particular place and time, brings with it the (potential) acquisition of social ‘goods’ (money, prestige, status, etc.)” (8). I believe this to be true with being a veterinarian. I don’t think they get much prestige, however they acquire the status of a doctor (DVM doctor of veterinary medicine) and they obviously get paid money for the job also. One artifact that I am using said the annual salary (as of 2015) was $88,490.00 which equals out to an hourly rate of $47.59. Also, a social good that goes along with this job is that you know you are helping animals and caring for them when they can’t help themselves.

https://www.valuepenguin.com/what-does-veterinarian-do

From the simplified version of the worksheet – a combination I have found would be Believing + Doing/Being…       Believing (on the worksheet) is defined as knowledge, so I took that as what academics is required to become a veterinarian. Doing/Being is defined as practices/activities that are enacted in the Discourse and what identities are relevant. I believe this is a combination because as a veterinarian you need to apply the knowledge you learn from school every single day while you’re at work because it is who you are. The worksheet linked below shows all of the details on Believing, Doing, and Being.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HiP4aunDDNGTeKIbeFEbZ5ToUYmVsM9tsGw1UUtVrYM/edit

A potential sign system of the Discourse of being a veterinarian I think would be compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue is defined as: a maelstrom of emotions from caring too much or too little – become emotionally drained or unable to recover from the slightest events to feeling numb about both patients and life outside of work. I believe this could determine what type of people are able to stay in the Discourse. This “test” might determine who truly is passionate enough to continue doing this job to help animals, despite how it could potentially affect themselves as the doctor.

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1.5/2 hours

The Discourse I am choosing for this assignment is being a veterinarian. 

The artifacts that I have collected are:

Life of a Veterinarian https://www.valuepenguin.com/life-of-veterinarian

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HiP4aunDDNGTeKIbeFEbZ5ToUYmVsM9tsGw1UUtVrYM/edit

Becoming a Zoo/Wildlife Vet http://www.drlucyspelman.com/doctoring-the-ark/becoming-a-zoo-vet.htm

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IZ7lns8rYxEaHhpXsnyJDK_WVutrHCA5jr5XKbrHIgA/edit

From the artifacts that I have collected on my chosen Discourse I feel as though I have a basic understanding of how being a veterinarian works. School wise, you need to have a basic bachelor’s degree that is heavy on science and math followed by four years of veterinary school. However, if you want to become a vet for a zoo and wildlife, you would need to do extra years of schooling that focuses on zoological medicine (anywhere from 1 to 5 years). When it comes to taking care of animals like in a normal practice, there are pros and cons. You are pursuing your passion in helping animals, but have to deal with their caretakers and the possible outcome of euthanasia. Your emotions will be altered throughout the job because you will witness all sorts of ailments that occur in animals. Vets experience death five times more than doctors for humans which can definitely alter you emotions. The job requires long hours as well. A normal practice may have normal 9am to 6pm hours (or such) but an ER veterinarian doctor can be working all hours of the day and night along with being on-call over the weekend. It is a demanding job with many opportunities since you can perform various tasks (anesthesiology, surgery, obstetrics).

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2.5 hours

Chosen Discourse: Dentistry

Artifacts:

1. Orthodontics

https://www.asdanet.org/life-of-a-dentist/orthodontics.aspx

2. A Day in the Life of A Dentist

https://www.myhealthcareer.com.au/dentistry/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-dentist

Discourse Analysis Worksheets:

Statement: 

In my discourse of dentistry there are many ways of doing, saying, valuing, and believing demonstrated. It was very helpful to point how these things can be shown by doing these worksheets. While doing these worksheets and reading my artifacts it helped me to learn the combinations of this specific discourse known as dentistry. It was shown that there can be many ways of showing value within this discourse. The values that can be shown through satisfaction of a patient’s overall experience and through the pride the dentist takes in an operation through the knowledge they have developed. Also the ways of being a dentist isn’t just about being a doctor, they are also a model for their patients, or even friends in a way. There is an amount of trust gained to form a relationship between a dentist and patient. Although of course they do have to do the task they are expected to do it is easier with a relationship. The doing can vary depending on the type of dentist they are. Which is why there are many combinations in dentistry, such as orthodontics. Depending in the part of dentistry someone is fluent in will depend on the way they speak, or find meaning to certain words. Some do their daily routines different than other. Which is fine because even though they do things differently they are still overall in the dentistry discourse.

Time on Task: 

two and half hours or so

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Chosen Discourse= Hockey

 

Artifacts:

1. https://www.britannica.com/sports/ice-hockey

2. http://www.ducksters.com/sports/hockey.php

Discourse Analysis:

The Rules of Ice Hockey

Gee’s Building Tasks of Discourse Analysis – A Simplified Worksheet (Sam Michaud)

Ice Hockey

Gee’s Building Tasks of Discourse Analysis – A Simplified Worksheet Sam Michaud

Photos of Annotating: 

The Rules of Ice Hockey

 

Ice Hockey

 

After reading these artifacts about Ice Hockey and completing the Discourse analysis, I was able to link each of these articles and compare them. They were both very similar. When reading the article The Rules of Ice Hockey, I noticed that they kept it pretty basic. They stated the rules of the game including Offsides and Icing. I put these in the category saying/writing because they are very relevant when playing. For the category Doing, I wrote the objective is too score more than the other team. Thats how you win games. In the category Being, I wrote that each team is only allowed 20 players and two goalies. This shows the identity. Valuing is what social goods are relevant. For this category I put the quote “that hockey is considered to be “One of the fastest flowing sports in the world.” Believing is what is know as the truth. I put down that “The referee (who wears the orange stripe) controls the game and makes the final decision.” For Combinations I put down ,The blue lines and red lines combine to make different zones in the rink. This is the combination of two parts that make up the rink. In the article Ice Hockey, the facts are very similar. Some new facts I learned were “Hockey- French word for hoquet (shepherds stick).” I wrote that down in the say/writing category. Ive always wondered where the name came from. In the Doing category, I wrote, Wayne Gretzky dominated the NHL in the eighties. Gretzky is a big part in why hockey is so popular. For the Being category, I wrote that the Boston Bruins were the first american team to join the NHL. This is important in the being category because the Boston Bruins first helped developed the popularity of hockey in the US. Canada hockey was competing with lacrosse in the 1800’s as the most popular sport. This is valuable for hockey. In the Believing category I wrote, Hockey is known to be Canada’s sport. That is a statement believed worldwide. In the combinations category I wrote that the NHL started with 6 teams and now has 30. This shows how both Canada and the US combined to make the sport more popular.

2 1/2 hours

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