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According to Gee Discourse is writing, doing, valuing, being, believing in one big combination.   .For example some of my main Discourses are being student, son, brother, friend, and athlete. Those five things define me by how I act while i’m around teachers or when I am home with my family. What i am trying to say is that we are different people depending on who we are with. You get discourse by being on a team, liking certain things, being born into it, what race you are, if you are poor or rich, if you are lazy or hard-working. Discourse define us but you as a person also get to decide what discourse you are meant to have. In the end of it all discourses are like labels. Use what not to do to get discourse instead of just ways to get one.  

Discourses do many things for us. They put you in groupings with people similar to you and that you can form bonds with. Discourses also give you as a person definition and defines how you act around certain people. In order to be someone in the world you have to be built with many discourses.  “A dominant discourse gives you the acquisition to obtain social goods”.(gee explains)  They give you money, power and social status. A non dominant discourse give you valuable things that isn’t worth actual money like friendships.  

James Paul Gee was born on April 15th, 1948 in San Jose California. He received a B.A. in philosophy from University of California and both an M.A. and Ph.D in linguistics from Stanford University. He began his career in theoretical linguistics, working in syntactic and semantic theory. He then taught at Stanford University and the school of language and communication at Hampshire College. Later on his research switched to discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and applications of linguistics to literacy and education. He went onto become the chair of the developmental studies and counseling. Around 2007 he went to teach at Arizona State University where he met his wife Mary Lou Fulton, a professor at the university. Gee has accomplished many things throughout his career, for example like holding onto Tashia Morgridge Professor of reading at the university of Wisconsin Madison from 1997-2007. He also created a new graduate program at Boston University and did many other things with his career.

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literacy nar. pre writing