My definition of a discourse community is basically any group of people who share similar interest and knowledge about a topic‚ have some common background or experiences‚ and share some way of communicating with each other. The student body here at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is my discourse community. The student body and I know how difficult it can be the first few days of college to navigate around campus and find the simple things like where to find the library‚ computer lab‚
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Cougar Madness “Palms sweaty‚ knees weak‚ arms are heavy.” Eminem’s 8 Mile pumped through my headphone like a syringe into my veins. Sweat beaded on my forehead and my muscles ached with fatigue as the 2012 Clark Cougar Basketball tryouts were coming to a close. The coach began to take his place in the front of the group‚ so I removed my headphones in preparation for his speech. He began to speak about how great this year’s turnout was. The suspense was brutal and time crawled as he went on. His
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Ann M. Johns‚ a well-known linguist has studied the way communities communicate with each other and the specific ways they do so. In “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership‚ Conflict‚ and Diversity”‚ Johns defines communities of practice as something that “refers to genres and lexis‚ but especially to many practices and values that hold communities together or separate them from one another” (500). Communities of practice are groups of people who use distinct language‚ objectives
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The Journey of A Successful Soccer Player In order to be accepted into a discourse community‚ a person must learn typical ways people in that community communicate and argue. In this paper I will prove that I entered the discourse community of my high school soccer team by acquiring knowledge‚ establishing my credibility‚ and learning the game I love. In other words‚ I will be using the ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos appeals. I love to play soccer and watch the professionals who play on TV. I have played
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Abstract—Individuals with cognitive impairment have difficulty successfully performing activities of daily living‚ which can lead to decreased independence. In order to help these individuals age in place and decrease caregiver burden‚ technologies for assistive living have gained popularity over the last decade. In this work‚ a context-aware prompting system is implemented‚ augmented by a smart phone to determine prompt situations in a smart home environment. While context-aware systems use temporal
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Assignment Title Inquiry-based learning in science is the main pedagogy being promoted across all Europe (see Rocard Report ) even at primary level. a) Discuss Inquiry-based learning in primary science‚ indicating its characteristics and its implications to pedagogy. b)Present one activity which can be classified as an inquiry-based science activity. Discuss why your activity can be considered as inquiry (you can use the Pri-Sci-Net indicators for this part) Introduction
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traditions”(Newton D Baker). Through exploring the history‚ power structure‚ slang words‚ rushing process‚ membership obligation‚ the way Phi Gamma Delta members dress‚ and how students who are not in a fraternity see the members. We will see how this discourse community can seem bias to outsiders. Phi Gamma Delta was founded on May 1‚ 1848 by six men who graduated from Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. The Phi Gamma Delta Chapter‚ nicknamed Fiji or Phi Gam by the members‚ has a hundred and thirteen chapters
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means that you have been apart of the dance discourse community for a long time and it is ever near and dear to your heart. However‚ I think you need to make what your discourse community is more known because from your story I can not tell what it is. I am confused on which one is your discourse community. Is it just being a dancer your discourse community or is the App state dance team your discourse community Or is Amber’s Studies your discourse community? You spoke about Senior Spotlight a lot but
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James Gee (19--) challenged the reading profession to think more broadly about reading instruction when he wrote‚ “’Literacy’ is the mastery or fluent control over a secondary Discourse” (p. 9). As social beings‚ people belong to a variety of Discourse groups‚ groups that have very specific identities and “ways of being in the world” (Gee‚ 19--‚ p. 6). Our primary Discourse group is that of our home. As our world expands‚ so do our Discourse groups. According to Gee‚ these secondary Discourse
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internet‚ where with just one click you’ll have what you want while sitting at the comfort of your own home‚ cellular phones‚ which made the communication easier for people on the go‚ and most especially computers where in all means of operation it is the tool being used. On the other hand‚ innovations have made possible for the operations of the computer easy enough in processing record systems such as‚ creation of data records‚ storing‚ filing and retrieval of data. The Isabela State University has
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