2009 Frisch’s Discourse Community What is a discourse community? According to John Swales‚ a respected written communication analyst‚ a discourse community is described as a group of people that have the same goals or purposes‚ and use communication to achieve these goals. In addition‚ “A discourse operates within conventions defined by communities‚ be they academic disciplines or social groups” (Swales‚ 119). This is not be confused with a speech community‚ “a community sharing knowledge of rules
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Secure communities: A fact sheet Joe Rosario Keller Graduate School of Management PA 582‚ Week 3 Project‚ Spring A 2011 Secure Communities is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program designed to identify immigrants in U.S. jails who are deportable under immigration law. ‘The Dallas County Sheriff ’s Department is one of more than a thousand activated jurisdictions participating in Secure Communities (S-Comm). For the uninitiated‚ here ’s how it works: Say a man
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Effectiveness of Community Policing To understand the effectiveness of community policing we first must understand the concept regarding community policing. Community policing is both a philosophy and an organizational strategy that allows the police and the community residences to work closely together in new ways to solve the problems‚ fear of crime‚ criminal disorder and at the same time increasing the community living conditions. Community policing implies an agreement‚ almost like a formal
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Community Immersion Learning (Service) Community immersion is a version of service learning that is more integrated with a student’s passions and interests‚ is longer-term and is related to the on-going development of community and social justice issues. Whereas pulling debris from a river would be classified as community service‚ at EUACS an explicit educational component – such as studying the causes of river pollution and how to advocate for environmental policy reform – makes it community
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TQ4 Teaching and Learning approaches (Ass. Crit. 2.1) Education is an ever-changing part of society. A teacher is faced with new challenges and difficulty that have never been dealt with before. Learners come with different life stories. Every student has strengths and weaknesses that reflect in the group. As a Teacher I must understand and focus on utilizing each student ’s strengths and work to improve weaknesses. Learners learn in a variety of ways and from one another. The ideas and view each
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John Puls Skolnick ENC 1101 5/4/2013 Modern Communities The values and characteristics of a healthy community have remained largely unchanged over the years; however‚ with the invention of online communities they have become significantly more impersonal. Accepting people for who they are and showing empathy towards others are indispensable values of a community. The values of a traditional community as outlined in Azar Nafisi’s essay “I believe in empathy” and Sarah Adams’s essay “Be cool
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The gay community or LGBT community is a loosely defined grouping of LGBT and LGBT supportive people‚ organizations and subcultures united by common culture and civil rights movements. Furthermore‚ the remarkable growth of the gay community in recent history has revolutionized our culture and consciousness‚ creating radically new possibilities for people to “come out”‚ and live more openly as homosexuals. Before the early years‚ homosexuality was a taboo subject. Since then‚ times have changed
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Community service is a very important factor when it comes to bettering your society. Through my own experiences and observations I have come to support and believe my opinion on this issue. To me community service means giving back to the community‚ it means your helping other people. It also shows the community that the young people today have kindness and manners. And care about where they are and that they also want to live happy and in peace knowing that we can help other people and they appreciate
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officers play an integral part in keeping our communities safe‚ and without them‚ everyone would sleep less soundly at night. But there are other individuals within the department who have a part in keeping it safe as well. A civilian career in law enforcement is a great alternative to serving as a sworn officer. For any number of reasons‚ serving as a sworn peace officer is not for everyone. These jobs offer opportunities to give back to the community and still work in the law enforcement field.
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Rebuilding a Community The motto of the National Beta Club says‚ “Let us lead by serving others.” Helping others in my community has always played an important role in my life. On April 27th‚ 2011‚ various tornadoes swept throughout the county I live in‚ destroying a large part of my community. Many of my friends and family were effected by the devastating tornadoes‚ including my uncle and aunt with their three children. I helped to rebuild my community by participating in a community wide clean-up
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