Comparing The Works Of Harris, Coates And Gee

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Harris, Coates and Gee are somewhat very similar because they all states how things in the world are different and how the differences in the world ‘shape” what we all see in our eyes. Even though Harris goes more into the different techniques of “tackling down” information, he is basically saying that those techniques are there for us to understand the structural format of writing and being a writer is mainly about. It adds to coates point of, to become a writer there are steps, ways and even struggles that you have to pass through and even that it takes sometime to gather everything in your control to better and improve yourself and your skills in writing. In the other hand, Gee is more focus on how people’s actions and behavior takes part …show more content…
To each text I have some experiences because I was onces young that was very curious about everything in the world. As a little kid I want to understand why everyone I’ve met were different in their actions, behavior, personality, skin tone and so on but when I read Gee’s discourses, small-d, Big D, I now understand the real context for what I was searching as a child. According to Gee, “I call each of these different forms or varieties of language “social language””. I have learned that the things I thought that I was the only one that have saw what was going on around me was actually what you or anyone might have seen or being through and because of that I was brought up to be Gloria and not anyone else, you know to understand that even though we look different on the inside or what people think who we are, we all have unique traits and those traits “shape” us as us. In the very first sentence in the introduction in Harris’ Introduction to Rewriting says “My aim in this book is to help you make interesting use of the texts you read in the essays you write”. This is what I was talking about in the second paragraph about the techniques and how he is willing to teach us on choosing interesting information for us to use in our text as we are

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