Science Discourse is a very interesting form of language. There is a whole lot of vernacular that is exclusive to the Discourse. Gee talks a lot about Discourse in both of the papers that we read from him, and it seems as if there is a lot of small nuances based off the Discourse of particular study. In Gee’s Building Tasks section of reading, he brings up the seven building tasks that need to be studied. All of the building tasks that he brought up can be related back to how a group of individuals as a whole study science Discourse. One crystal clear example of science Discourse that I have experienced in my life was when I had to explain to a professor visiting from China what a hemocytometer was. She was a science professor back in China, but her english was very spotty, so I found myself having to explain many words to her when I was paired with her in my lab. But back to the point, a hemocytometer is a tool that grids small amounts of space under a microscope, and is key for cell counting. That is something only people in the science Discourse would know.
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