This is one of my annotated pages in Gee’s “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction”. I annotated a couple of sentences talking about how a Discourse is a kind of “identity kit”. I think this is true in some aspects. You are your own person. You probably know how to do things that most people don’t and you can offer the world something new. But the things you learn throughout your life, maybe a sport, skill, instrument, job, etc. is a Discourse. What isn’t a Discourse is your view of life such as morals, imagination and other ideas that you and only you think of. So a Discourse isn’t an identity kit, its more of a skill kit. It doesn’t define who you are it just is something to help you make someone out of yourself.
