Author: Skylah Buchanan

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Printmaking is an extremely time consuming process. It takes carving mediums and a little bit of ink to create beautiful artistic editions. When you put all the focused time into it as it requires, you can become an expert quicker than you would expect. First you make a design you are interested in and transfer it on a medium or a plate. Next, you choose from many carving tools (depending upon what medium you are working on) to carve the plate. 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.

Paragraph 1, drat 2:

Printmaking is an extremely time consuming process. It takes carving into unique mediums and a little bit of ink, but it can create beautiful, artistic editions. A medium is any material you can carve into wether that be linoleum, plexiglass, or even a piece of wood. An edition is a collection of the same prints you have made with your carved medium. When you put all the focused time into printing as it requires, you can become an expert quicker than you would expect. First you make a design you are interested in and transfer it on a medium or otherwise known as a plate, with a sharpie marker. Next, you choose from many carving tools (depending upon what medium you are working on) to carve the plate. Lastly you roll out ink onto the medium of choice and use wet, cotton paper to transfer your image through a printing press. Anyone can easily fall in love with this step by step process because of how beautiful so many prints come out. Most printmakers take a lot of pride in their editions due to the fact of how much work goes into it.

For this paragraph I explained a lot more about what the different words mean that involve printmaking. I figured a lot of people wouldn’t exactly know what some of these words meant and it makes it easier for people to understand. I realized I used the word you a lot so I made it more general, figuring that most people will never try printing. One thing I am not sure about is if I should add anything to the last sentence. I can’t tell if it wraps up the paragraph or leaves my reader hanging.

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Being a printer is a hybrid secondary discourse. Although many artists produce print editions leisurely, there is always the potential of money, prestige, and status. My art teacher here at the University of New England 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 sure she has some sort of status within the artist community there. Then of course, famous printmakers can acquire a lot of money and most definitely prestige from their work all over the world. Like me though, I do this for fun. You could say that I am in the non-dominant discourse of printing. Even though I do it for fun, there is always the potential for printers like myself to amount to the dominant discourse part of it. 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 (at least some) prestige and status from it if you later become a master.

Paragraph 2, draft 2:

Being a printer is a hybrid secondary discourse. Although many artists produce print editions leisurely, there is always the potential of money, prestige, and status. My art teacher here at the University of New England has a print shop in Portland where she produces new editions every week. There, she sells her work. As an artist in Portland, she definitely has a status within the artist community there. This puts her most likely in the lower part of the dominant discourse because she is not by any means famous. Famous printmakers can acquire a lot of money, and most definitely prestige from their work all over the world. Like me though, I do this for fun. You could say that I am in the non-dominant discourse of printing. Even though I do it for fun, there is always the potential for printers like myself to amount to the dominant discourse part of it. Even I, as an intermediate printmaker, could sell my prints and make money from them. This puts me in the non-dominant Discourse because my work does not bring with it money or prestige, but I am a part of a social network. I am a part of a social network of not only printers, but artists as well. In the Printing Discourse, most anyone can get money or acquire (at least some) prestige and status from it if you later work hard enough to become a master.

I changed some of my sentences so I sound more confident with my facts. Instead of saying “I’m sure she” I changed it to something like “she definitely has”. I also put an explanation in of what Discourse my art teacher was in because I seemed to be missing that. I also put more explanation of what secondary discourse I belonged too. I tried to use some more of Gee’s language here. I think something I could possibly add that adds to Gee’s theory is how there are different levels of money, status and prestige. Maybe in the paragraph when I explain Discourse I can do this.

Time on task: 1 hour

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After making a post-draft outline I realized I definitely need a better conclusion. My last paragraph is helpful to the analysis of my Discourse but I don’t think it is right to be a conclusion. I like how I set up the rest of the essay before that last paragraph though. I explain a Gee idea, and then the next paragraph is using those ideas to explain my own Discourse. I think I do a good job with originality because I am using my own experiences to make my reader understand my Discourse, from my perspective. I use a lot of print language in the essay that can definitely use more explanation to help the reader better understand. I need more of gees idea of saying-doing-being-valuing, etc. When I put solid artifacts in my draft I think I will have an easier time putting those ideas into focus. If I had an artists personal story and connecting it to how they are in the dominant part of the secondary Discourse could make my essay more interesting. I think it is very obvious that only I could write this draft. Not many people could understand how to explain multiple parts of the Discourse even if they looked up the facts of it. I like where my essay is going so far, but it definitely needs a lot of work.

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Time on task: 30 Minutes

To fix my final draft I definitely need to add reliable artifacts. That is the main problem I have with my essay as of currently. For other revisions, I definitely have to make my claim more prompted in my first paragraph. I focus entirely on Discourse. My analysis is how you can be considered a printmaker.

From my comments I need to:

• Describe how long it takes to print
• How I got into the printing discourse (being an art kid)
• What a medium is – pretty much what you are using to make the art work. Put that in after my firsty sentence talking about medium.
•  Smoother transitions from one idea to the next
• Maybe a story how a print sold for money as my artifact? Ask art teachers.
• More explanation on how it is a hybrid
• The different ways you can tell some one is in a printing Discourse
• Make the names of the tools clear and tell how they are parts of the sign sysytem and knowledge element of Gee
• Figuring out what artifacts will be helpful to explain my paper better

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Time on task: 30 Minutes

• My main question I am writing about is “how can you tell if some one is in the printing discourse”?
• The main idea I hope to get across with my final draft is how you can tell if some one is in the Discourse.
• I feel like I need help with incorporating good artifacts to help my reader better understand how you can tell if some one is a printmaker.
• With my revision I would like to know how I should end my essay. Should I be restating the question? Some ways I answered the question? Also where I should add my artifacts and making sure my paragraphs flow smoothly from one to the next.

Time on task: 15 minutes

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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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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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Printmaking: Printmaking is a type of art where you can use a carved plate to print an edition of the same piece. This became popular when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. At this time it was more popular to print the Bible and the new of course, but as time went on, it was used for arts. This type of art was used primarily for propaganda and circus posters in the fifties and is slowly becoming popular again in the art world.

Possible Sources – For this Discourse, I could show either a print and the materials to make one, or go through a step by step process of a specific time of print and how you print it.

Initial thoughts – Even with showing both of these artifacts it will give my listeners a lot of insight of what printmaking is all about. Theres a lot of different tools you can use to carve specific plates so I could use those as artifacts too. I think showing the few things used to make the prints it will help better understand the printing process. Showing the process figuratively will bring everything into full circle how everything works together.

Working at Olympic Physical Therapy: Physical therapy is essentially rehabilitation of the body through exercising. PT offices can usually be found in every town, and I worked at the one in my town for a summer. I worked alongside the physical therapist and saw the multitude of tasks they worked on. I also worked alongside the PTA’s which stands for physical therapist assistant, who helped patients do their specific exercises. PT’s can work anywhere from offices, to colleges, to hospitals.

Possible Sources – I could use a packet that they give to patients with some exercises, and I could also show a few tutorials of what machines they use for specific areas of the body.

Initial thoughts – Working with physical therapists can be very confusing because there is a lot to it. I think showing the packet of exercises will be good because they usually show exactly what it is helping and how it helps the area of hurt. Showing the machines will essentially do the same thing. Maybe I could have my listeners do a few of the exercises to show them what its like. Also, with each patient comes a check list with all of the exercises they are supposed to do, that could also be helpful to show what it’s used for in the office.

Playing High School Soccer (Last Option): Soccer can be played recreationally, on a team, in high school, there are club teams, and the dream, professionally. This is a game that consists of eleven players on each team (including a goalie), two teams, a ball, and a net for each team. There are various rules and regulations that come along with this game that makes learning about it quite interesting.

Possible Sources – For the Discourse of soccer, I could show a book where all the players are logged and the actions they make as a player are marked (such as goals and shots on goal or if you are the goalie, they mark your saves). I could also possibly recite what the refs tell the players right before the game that has to do with safety, making sure you are game ready by your uniform, sportsmanship, etc.

Initial thoughts – The book shows how each players stats can be taken and compared for each game. It really can show on a timeline how you progressed as a player. It also gives the newspapers their stats for the next day paper and the big win headliner. What the refs say at beginning of each game will give incite to what we have to wear and how to wear it, and what we can and can’t have on. Also the rules of sportsmanship are included in that as well, aka how you have to act within the game. The only thing I wish there was an artifact for is the refs calls. What they call is very important because it tells you what your next action has to be. Maybe there is a different artifact I can show that does show this.

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