Central Florida, “a discourse community is a group of people involved in and communicating about a particular topic, issue, or in a particular field” ("What Is a Discourse Community?" ). Examples of discourse communities can be professional organizations, specific classes, sports teams, and even a group of fans for a musician. Within these discourse communities, there is a specific basis of what good writing is and what form of communication is most often used. Each community has its own jargon and…
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involved in a variety of discourse community. Understanding the concept of a discourse community is essential and very useful to easily adapt to different discourse communities such as a new class in school or even a new workplace. As we look at the discourse communities we are already involved in you may see many common traits. Many notable writers have influenced the definition of a discourse community, and through applying my personal experiences I have defined a discourse community as a group of individuals…
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Discourse Community of Conway Pediatric Plus, I’m interviewing A lady friend of my, Wanita Parker, that’s been a lead teacher and teachers’ assistant for the last six month. I’ve asked her general question on how they communicate to reach the common goal. Which is to help the children reach their utmost potential concerning their mental and physical health, and help them all live a normal life as they grow, and to even help develop early learning skills. Sounds good, now what about the type of environment…
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Discourse Community Ethnography Assignment Objective and Overview For your second major writing assignment, you will explore how communication is structured by the communities it takes place within. In "The Concept of Discourse Community," John Swales proposes six defining characteristics of discourse communities: A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals. A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members. A discourse community uses its participatory…
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Discourse communities are seen everywhere, whether it is an academic or social community. John Swales, professor of linguistics at University of Michigan, says even though discourse communities are “imperfectly defined terms”, they are “…the center of a set of ideas rather than the sign of a settled notion” (Swales 469). Specifically, in the comic book realm, there are several discourse communities with different subjects. For example, there are communities that could focus on certain heroes such…
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In James E. Porter’s reading, “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community” he explains what interxuality is and how it works within discourse communities. In the reading, he explains the two types of intertextuality, which are iterability and presupposition. Iterability basically means that texts contain parts of other texts that help the reader understand make up the meaning. Presupposition refers to assumptions a text makes about its readers and the context. Although plagiarism is wrong, he does…
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4: Discourse/Disciplinary Analysis Choose a discourse community (as Swales defines it) that has made an impact on you or one that interests you (one option that I strongly suggest would be choosing your proposed academic major). Then, through primary and secondary research, find a preliminary answer to this research question: "What are the goals and characteristics of this discourse community?" Write a five- or six- page report that tries to answer…
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“Discourse Community” John Swales states that the six characteristics of a discourse community help further support “how people use texts and language to accomplish work together”. (215) For this essay I chose to analyze my Biology 1107 class. Collectively as a whole, we share a common lexis and a text. We use an understand language to solve problems for example it is understood that ΔG is free energy, and we use the Campbell Biology tenth edition text book. This aligns with Swales’ fifth characteristic…
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just quizzing you on what you know, which is contrastingly different when compared to the writing exam, where students are expected to step into the university’s discourse without having any previous knowledge of how to write like a scholar. To add to this insanity, students are also expected to write within their own particular discourse rather than the university’s as a whole. After the exams, students are placed accordingly in various writing classes, where they are expected to write multiple papers…
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The study of communication between instructors and students in any given scenario can be heavily dependent on face to face interaction and written text. This does not differ within the dance community and that is why I aim to study the specific ways in which dance instructors communicate with their students through a Facebook account as well as through face to face interaction. The focus of my research is directly related to the goal of Elsa Pardo Dance Center where they strive to “create beautiful…
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