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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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    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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    Each of the sources above gives different aspects of cardiology discourse community that would help to create a healthy lifestyle to the patients‚ who are experiencing or suffering from different kinds of heart diseases. The interview that has been conducted with Dr. Besma Mikhail gives an overview of how it feels for being doctor in the community. It focuses on the emotional aspect of the medical discourse community. Also‚ it clarifies the challenges‚ and the amount of work needed to achieve this

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    playing basketball in our community basketball courts. I decided to visit the basketball court on Saturday to observe as many players as I can. I spent about hour or so just studying how the kids were positioning their hands‚ grips‚ legs‚ and overall body before they took the shot. In addition‚ I also found that many of the kids were playing with their dads who were also teaching them. From that‚ I realized that what if there was a system that could teach new players how to play basketball correctly

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    Carly Krueger English 100J-1027 Dr. Nancy El Gendy Essay #2: Discourse Community Analysis October‚ 26‚ 2016 One Heart‚ One Way ΣΚ Colby College in Waterville‚ Maine is the second oldest college in Maine‚ and Sigma Kappa was the only Greek letter society founded in the State. In 1873‚ the freshman class was the first to have more than just one woman‚ four more came along. Mary Caffrey Low was the first female student to attend the College. Louise Helen Coburn‚ Elizabeth Gotham Hoag‚ Ida Mabel Fuller

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    Council of Teachers of English) ‚ a discourse community is “the grouping of people who share common language norms‚ characteristics‚ patterns‚ or practices as a consequence of their ongoing communications and identifications with each other”‚ with that being said the discourse community of Political Science is one of relevance and interest to myself. There are many different articles and pages that serve to help one understand all about discourses and the discourse of Political Science solely. The goals

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    Everyone belongs to various communities‚ but one type of community that many people don’t recognize is discourse communities. Discourse communities may be difficult to identify and pick out‚ but thankfully‚ author John Swales outlines the necessary criteria needed to be considered a discourse community. Swales says‚ “The concept of discourse community is proposed as a more functional and goal-directed grouping than either speech community or speech fellowship” (Swales 211). He then goes on to give

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    Rhetorical Arts Writing in the Applied Math Discourse Community A discourse community that I would like to be involved in is the Applied Mathematics discourse community. Although James Paul Gee claims that it is not that simple to join a discourse community‚ it is even more so in the applied mathematics discourse community because of how broad it is. A lot of the time‚ people engulfed in the Applied Math discourse community are usually part of another discourse community. For example‚ Angela Gallegos‚ a math

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    “The Concept of Discourse Community‚” an excerpt from the book Genre Analysis‚ by John Swales attempts to indicate the actual definition of a discourse community. Swales main argument is that there is a difference between a speech community and a discourse community. Also‚ that there are six characteristics a group must meet in order to be a discourse community. Swales then provides examples and discusses issues concerning the idea of a discourse community. In the beginning of Swales argument‚

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    Discourse Community Analysis For the last decade‚ massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have been rising in popularity‚ with the total revenue of these games coming out to be about half a billion dollars. Since the year 2004‚ there is one game that has greatly contributed to this increase of interest in the genre: World of Warcraft. Since its inception‚ World of Warcraft has achieved over eleven million subscribers‚ as well as being referenced in mainstream media such as news

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