- Gee tells about the “seven building tasks of language”, one task known as “practices” (activities). Gee describes the differences between informing someone of something, and showing them how it is done. There are three words; saying, doing, and believing that gee mentions and expands on “What we say, do, and are in using language enacts practices. At the same time, what we say, do, and are would have no meaning unless these practices already existed…language and practices ‘boot strap’ each other into existence in a reciprocal process through time. We cannot have one without the other” (Gee 33). Using Gee’s knowledge of scientific discourse. In science, solving a hypothesis by experiments and getting their results to validate the scientists work just like in the work of Nair and Nair, they us the IMRAD format as means for the organization of a research paper. Nair and Nair explain, “Thus, the value of the paper depends on what is contained in this (Results) section, and it must be presented in an absolutely clear manner in just the right number of words, neither more nor less” (Nair and Nair 20). Nair and Nair explain, that this area of the paper presents new knowledge to the reader which should be practice as stated by Gee to achieve curtain results.
- Some portions of Gee’s texts when looked closer at you can find connection to the work of Nair and Nair in the IMRAD Format. In Gees “seven building tasks of language” he discusses the different significances of communication. The says “We use language to build things in the world, to engage in world building, and to keep the social world going…Saying something makes it so, as long as one has said it in the right circumstances” (Gee, 31). In Language, according to Gee its a tool needed in life, but only if done in the right way. Nair and Nair provide a great starting point to correctly communicate a scientific Discourse. “with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) adopting the term [IMRAD] as the standard, first in 1972 and again in 1979 (ANSI 1979), it has become the choice of most research journals” (Nair and Nair 14). The IMRAD being the universal code for scientific knowledge needed to enter the specific Discourse of academic science through written. ENG110I
