Discourses, according to Gee, are like identity kits that include all kinds of things. He names some of things things in " Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics ," stating, "At any moment we are using language we must say or write the write thing in the right way while playing the right social role and (appearing) to hold the right values, beliefs and attitudes. Thus, what is important is not language, and surely not grammar, but saying ( writing)--doing--being--valuing--believing combinations " (2). In other words, it's everything. The way I sound, the way I walk, the way I dress, the values I hold, the way I interact with machines and people and data. I think that's why people I meet always assume I am a teacher. I SEEM like a teacher. And truth be told, most of those people who assume I am a teacher also assume I am an English teacher. (Most of them don't know there is such a thing as a rhetoric class.) What is it I am doing that tells people ...