Annotated Bibliography - Hidden Intellectualism and Academic Discourse

An issue I feel strongly about through both of the essay's of hidden intellectualism and Academic Discourse. Through Hidden Intellectualism the author persuades the audience that he would rather have students of street smarts rather than students have book smarts, because the students that have street smarts have the smarts of reality already, and that book smarts they do not acquire that yet, and in Academic discourse it is the students excelling in the work through school, but when it is time to go into their career they do not know what to do like if a student goes through med school and goes through school easily then when it is time to be a doctor they do not know how to diagnose their patient. In other words they do not know how to put what they learned into the work environment of their career. What I' am trying to relate to both readings is that through school, in order to become what you have picked for your career for the rest of your life, you have to take the basics and essentials and whatever they have taught you and you have to pursue in further education or learning, or credentials to go against other competition to get a job or even to keep a job.

Just knowing the basics will not do it anymore, like in my case though high school I went to a vocational school and through school I was able to pick up a trade and that was Plumbing. But when it came time to go find a job no one would hire me at first,

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Because all I had was that I took up Plumbing in a Vocational school so I did not have enough credentials. Then after a few years I finally got a plumbing job and because I only knew the basics they would not let me go out on jobs so I would stay in the shop and learn either through knowing different fittings of PVC, Copper, Black steel, and to learn how to Lead and Oakum Cast Iron Joints. In general it was just a learning experience, but when it came to lay some people off they had