Reading Response 19

Summary
In his article "Memoria is a Friend of Ours: On the Discourses of Color" Victor Villanueva argues that although memoria is a good tool to use in writing, it "simply cannot be adequately portrayed in the conventional discourse of the academy."  He also writes about pathos, ethos,and logos.  They are the Greek words for emotion, credibility, and logic.  Many documents will have two of them and lack the third, but incorporating them all into a document is would make the document much stronger.

Synthesis
This article relates to Elizabeth Wardle's article.  Villanueva details his immigration to the United States and how he assimilated into the culture.  At first he did not know much about how Americans wrote, but eventually he learned and went to college.  In Wardle's article she writes about a man who tries to assimilate into a new workplace.

Review
I didn't mind the other texts in this text, it made the reading shorter and easier.  It was at times hard to follow his argument and I would have to go back to the last essay part and reread it.  Overall this article was better than most that we have read.

QD 7
Villanueva's primary Discourse is that of his Puerto Rican family.  His secondary Discourse would be any that involve English.  His situation is much more complex than this because he barely knows Spanish, the language of Puerto Rico, and he is fluent in English.  Gee would say that he is not in a Puerto Rican Discourse at all, because he argues that you are either fluent in a Discourse or are not part of it at all.