Coordination
- This is one of the main ideas of Gee’s, and conversely, one of the main things that Delpit disagrees with.
- It is a compound sentence because it uses a conjunction of and with a comma, and both parts of the sentence are equally important, with the idea of Gee being the first important part, and Delpit disagreeing with it being the other.
- Marge was a talented student at a major Midwestern University, but lacked the dominant discourse, “of how to maneuver her way through academic writing, reading, and talking.”
- This is a compound sentence because it uses the conjunction of but with a comma, and both parts are equally important, with the first part being that Marge was a talented student, and the second part is how she lacked the dominant discourse needed.
- It is incredibly easy to disprove Gee, and Delpit did just that with her story of Brent and Marge.
- This is a compound sentence because it uses the conjunction of and with a comma, and both parts are equally important, with the first being that Gee is easy to disprove, and the second that Delpit is able to do that with examples.
Subordination
- This is important, as it means that dominant discourse entry is near impossible since those who have not been born into said discourse will have a hard time acquiring it.
- This is a complex sentence as it uses the subordinating conjunction of as, and the part of the sentence that I would emphasize is that dominant discourse entry is near impossible since those who had not been born into one will have trouble acquiring one, as it connects to the rest of my paper and is very important.
- I believe it is incorrect because, in the past paragraph, Delpit’s examples disprove this theory, as two Black individuals who sought out dominant status discourses, were not forced with adopted values that deny their identities.
- This is a complex sentence as it uses the subordinating conjunction of because, and the part of the sentence that I would emphasis is the example that two black individuals who sought out dominant status discourses were not forced with adopted values that deny their identity, as it connects to the rest of my paper and disproves Gee’s theory.
