Kat: Just winging it

To put this bluntly...I'm blunt.  In actuality, my middle name might as well be "Blunt."  I prefer for people to not always guess what I am thinking. And that is usually where my opinions and subjectivity come into play.  Is it always a good thing to be blunt when expressing an opinion? Well, in certain situations, no.  However, I do believe there is a difference between being blunt and cruel. According to self-help author Grahame Cossum's definition of bluntness, ..."being  blunt is being able to ask an extremely difficult question, or give an answer someone doesn't want to hear in a a way where dialogue continues, and isn’t closed down. There are always exceptions however, some people will say you are blunt, because they don’t want to hear what you have to say regardless of how it is framed." Holding on to that thought, lets go back to opinions and subjectivity.  Subjective writing is a type of writing that expresses one's viewpoint, whether it...

When it comes to primary and secondary discourses, most people maintain both. For instance, one may have a primary discourse they acquired naturally at home, while also having a secondary discourse within a work environment.  According to James Paul Gee, " Discourses are ways of being in the world, they are forms of life which integrate words, values, beliefs, attitudes, and social identities as well as gestures, body positions, glances, and clothes. "  In other words, all of these forms of life form a variety of language. One example of me  mushfaking  my way into a career was when I first started my American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting internship. I had been in the ASL interpreting program for months.  I knew sign language, had knowledge about the Deaf Community and it's Culture , and was aware of the general role of an interpreter as a whole.  However, when in when it came to interpret in a professional setting for the first time (I had only...