The Height of Discourse After I watched two hours of intense play and the huddle split‚ I observed high fives and complex handshakes of some sort. “Hampton on three. Hampton on three. ONE‚ TWO‚ THREE‚ HAMPTON!” They started coming my way; as an ex-basketball player‚ deep down I yearned for a handshake or some kind of acknowledgment‚ but I sat there like a fork in the road. Each member parted around me to my left and to my right‚ some giving head nods and some giving nothing at all. I quickly realized
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James Paul Gee defines discourse communities as a way of life‚ which consolidates with language and texts (Gee‚ 274). He goes to say that discourses are used to create meaning to activities or to “get things done or not” (Gee‚ 275). According to Swales‚ there are six characteristics in order to be entitled a discourse community. The characteristics are as following: "[It has] A broadly agreed set of common public goals‚ [It has] mechanisms of intercommunication among its members (such as newsletters
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group in my English 101 class. We were assigned with researching and writing a paper on a discourse community of our choice. The community we decided to focus our work on was the Edge at Mason‚ a group that helps bring people together through team-building strategies. The need that our work was attempting to respond to was the need to come up with a solution to a potential problem within the discourse community. This problem arose from the lack of any formal supervisior or scribe during the community’s
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Discourse Community Project 1. I am studying the outdoors discourse community. a. Majors relating to the outdoors include ecology‚ environmental studies‚ sustainable food production‚ climate science and geography. Related departments include: Biology‚ Environment and Society‚ Plants‚ Soils and Climate‚ Watershed Sciences and Wildland Resources. Some disciplines are ecophysiology (the interrelationship between the physical function of something and its surroundings) and behavioral ecology (the way
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Customer Care In todays competitive environment‚ the issue of customer relations has become ever more important. With such wide choices available to the customer‚ the slightest dissatisfaction can easily result in customer taking their business else where. There are many methods available for an organisation to establish and maintain positive relationships with customer to help them retain their business. Communication is one of the most important methods as it covers many aspects of customer
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Pamela Gueco Discourse Community Analysis Final Draft Dance the Night Away At the beginning of my high school days when I was a freshman or “fish” as the upperclassmen would call us‚ I never knew where I really belonged. Every clique or group that I tried to become a part of did not truly fit my personality. Just like the upperclassmen had said‚ I felt like a small fish in an even bigger sea. It all changed when one day
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CVPA Discourse Community There is a large variety of academic discourse communities available at the university today. Deciding to go to college is deciding to enter an academic discourse community all on its own but deciding to choose a major is entering a more specified discourse community. There are many similarities and differences between each community which makes it difficult for some people to choose‚ including myself. Comparing and contrasting majors can make it easier for someone to choose
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In our book‚ Writing About Writing‚ John Swales defines a discourse community as a group of individuals who share “a broadly agreed upon set of public goals” that use “mechanisms of intercommunication among its members” in order to achieve their objectives (795). I have chosen to examine how the College World‚ the Adrian College school paper‚ operates as a discourse community through the use of various mechanisms in order to solve the main issues that arise. More precisely‚ the research will explore
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UCF Robotics Club‚ a Discourse Community A discourse community can be defined many ways; however I tend to agree with Swale’s definition of it. Swale’s classification of a discourse community is that it has six main characteristics. Those being a "broadly agreed set of common public goals"‚ "mechanisms of intercommunication among its members"‚ "uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback"‚ "utilizes and hence processes one or more genres in the communicative
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Reaction Rates of Barley Alpha Amylase with Starch at Specific pH ’s and Temperatures Page 1 Abstract Enzyme ’s are used as catalysts in certain reactions. They help lower the activation energy needed for the reaction to go to completion. At optimum temperature and pH the amount of collisions of substrate and enzyme is at its highest‚ any deviation from the optimum temperature and pH will result in the denaturization of the enzyme. The purpose of this experiment is to find the optimum
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