Drawing Your Conclusions
2. This first body paragraph talks about compassion fatigue and how it can affect a veterinarian and how it correlates with Gee’s “saying” building task.
3. My second body paragraph talks about the duties that veterinarians have to do within a single day on the job and how it belongs in the “doing” category of the building tasks.
4. The third body paragraph talks about how there is a combination of the building tasks “being” and “believing” which goes along with the identity roles in the Discourse of being a veterinarian and the basic schooling requirements for this Discourse.
5. My fourth body paragraph talks about the “values” within this Discourse which I named as the pros and cons of being a veterinarian.
6. My last body paragraph talks about how the negative sides of the Discourse can be a testing or deciding factor of whether people can continue practicing in the Discourse or not.
- Does my analysis of this particular Discourse have components that do not quite fit into a straightforward application of Gee’s ideas? What are they? (If so, perhaps you have something important to ADD to – or even CHALLENGE Gee’s sense of – the ways that Discourses work.)
- I believe that my ideas fit into a straightforward application of Gee’s ideas, I just need to do some reorganizing of paragraphs and ideas to make those points more clear. For example I need to reorganize the part about compassion fatigue, and redo my paragraphs about identities.
- Are there reasons to consider the ways your Discourse works very similarly to other, perhaps related Discourses? Maybe your Discourse is a subset of a broader set of Discourses. (If so, perhaps your analysis may be able to tell us about this broader set of Discourses.)
- I believe that my Discourse can connect to other medical professional Discourses such as general doctors, anesthesiologists, surgeons, and obstetricians. However, since a veterinarian has to be all of these at once, it is a broader Discourse.
- Our Discourse analyses are all limited by the source material from which we’ve drawn. Hopefully, you’ve chosen really good artifacts that help you reveal some key features of the Discourse. But there are probably some important LIMITATIONS that you can see. What are they? These are possibly areas for further inquiry should one pursue the project further.
- The artifacts I’ve been using for this paper have given me general ideas of what a veterinarian does but does not go into detail or describe what those things actually mean. So, if I were to go into detail or describe a basic procedure, I would probably have to look at a new artifact.
Conclusion:
Being a veterinarian means you devote your time and energy to your patients, which are the animals that you help daily. Since this is a time consuming career, it is considered a lifestyle or your identity – which is why being a veterinarian is considered a Dominant Discourse………….
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