focusing on the discourse community of Comp. 1900. What is a discourse community? 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?). Comp 1900 is an introduction to computer science course. The reason why I have chosen to see this class as a discourse community is because I believe it fits into the six Swales rules for deciding if a community is a discourse community. The rules go as
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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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University of Michigan‚ John Swales‚ “The Concept of Discourse Community‚” a discourse community is defined by six characteristics: 1. A discourse community “has broadly agreed to set of common goals public goals.” This is evident in my discourse community because as marketers our common goal to is to communicate our ideas through oral‚ written‚ and visual communication as well as build strong and profitable customer relationships. 2. A discourse community “has mechanisms
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many different discourse communities even though we don’t realize it‚ but we actually get ourselves involved without even knowing. Discourse communities are everywhere not just in schools‚ colleges‚ nor churches they are all over our community. From interacting with your roommate in your dorm to since club you are involved they are all discourse communities. Dancing by its self won’t function as a discourse community but once we talk about Dance Teams we are creating a discourse community within dancing
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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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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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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS To truly understand what discourse analysis is‚ it is important to first understand what discourse is. There are three ways in which we can describe discourse; each of which are of equal importance: Firstly‚ discourse can be described as language beyond the level of the sentence. By this we mean that it is a type of language that extends past features such as sounds (phonetics)‚ structures (syntax) and the parts that make up words (morphology). The second description
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