- When Haas says “At the college level, to become literate is in many ways to learn the patterns of knowing about, and behaving towards, texts within a disciplinary field,” she is saying that literacy is not something easy to achieve. At the college level, literature becomes much more dense and harder to understand, so students in college must work much harder to become literate in a certain discourse.
- The myth about autonomous texts is that they really exist, when in reality, texts that are strictly autonomous aren’t really a thing. People don’t write literature or other works just for someone else, without any background knowledge of anything at all. All texts are influenced by something outside.
- Haas’s study of Eliza shows that throughout the four years that it takes to get an undergraduate degree, a student’s understanding of literature would likely increase. The student would become much more well versed in what they are studying than when they had started as a freshman. All students come to college to learn and become smarter, especially in the major that they chose, and during their 4 years, they will become much more knowledgeable than they were before.
- When Haas uses the term “rhetorical frame,” she is referring to an author’s effort to understand why people write how they write. That’s kind of the way I explained it when we talked about it in writing lab, and the professor agreed with me. It is a dumbed down version of what the dictionary definition is, but it is actually a fairly accurate depiction of what rhetorical frame is.
- Gee and Haas share a lot of points of view, like how someone can acquire a discourse by assimilation and apprenticeship. Haas says that a student becomes more well versed in scientific writing based on the amount of time that they spend studying scientific writing. Gee says that people can join a secondary Discourse by spending time in a school or work place. That’s where their views come together.
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