James Paul Gee Literacy

In his essay “What is Literacy?” author and linguist James Paul Gee informs us of his definition of literacy by breaking it down for us and giving us examples that we personally encounter on a day to day basis. Gee tries to gives us a better understanding of the way that we as people behave when it comes to talking and interacting with different people. Gee uses research and political examples as his source of information. He really focuses on using quotes and his personal phrases such as “Identity Kit” to give us a better understanding of his overall idea, which is that we all have two types of discourses being the primary and secondary discourse; Our primary discourse cannot be changed, it is what we first learned and interacted with, says