was the main source for “literacy and political discourse”? • In antebellum America‚ the main source for “literacy and political discourse” was printer and steam press. 2. How does the economy relate to literacy as suggested pages 1-2? • If the literacy develops‚ the economy will develop too. The development of the economy leads to earn more benefit and power. 3. What have past scholars/researches said about literacy? (p.2) • They said about literacy that literacy is one of the engines to
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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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customers through strong oral‚ written‚ and visual communication. According to professor of linguistics and co-director of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English at the 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
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A discourse community is essentially a group of people that aggregate together at a time when their interest may meet. I’m a member of an immoderate number of discourse communities‚ as are others I’m sure. Interestingly‚ when I mull over what community I can say I find most attractive‚ there is almost no confusion on which community that is. Quite astonishing‚ really‚ since most would likely have multiple favorite discourse communities. It wasn’t until I thought deeply about this particular matter
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Visual Literacy September 26‚ 2012 Art 101 Although Howling Wolf’s drawing is seen as näively executed by the standards of Western art‚ why do we conclude that his record of the treaty signing event is more honest than the illustration rendered by John Taylor? I think that Wolf described the treaty signing in this way because he knew that it was only right to show the similarity on how it really did happen. I feel this way because I think that Wolf felt he wanted to be honest with himself
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Zack Myers 1/28/2013 English 1A- Donovan Literacy Narrative; Too Much to Say The problem that plagues the modern mind is a surplus of content. Increasingly in my generation‚ with the trend to binge on internet freedom‚ the average person has seen too much to be able to form a clear opinion. With an ever-changing fleet of perspectives invading one’s mind‚ it is as if one is screaming in a riot to try and convince themselves of their own opinion. The most influential instructor I’ve been lead by
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who played those kind of games as a kid. There is also a little bit of Kung-Fu‚ Karate Judo and etc. influences on the styles. In this ethnography‚ I will discuss how MMA is more than just a combination of different fighting systems; it is also a discourse community‚ in other words according to John Swales‚ it is a made up of individuals who share “a broadly agreed upon set of common public goals”. This form of fighting can be traced back since the Greco-Roman times during the ancient Olympics when
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Week 1 Visual Literacy Jennifer Bryant 1. Although Howling Wolf’s drawing is seen as naively executed by the standards of Western art‚ why do we conclude that his record of the treaty signing event is more honest than the illustration rendered by the other artist? * In Howling Wolf drawing he included the “Medicine Lodge Creek.” His drawing had Native American women with their backs turned away from the people while they watched the signing. This to me was drawn to make the women look
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A discourse community can be defined as a group of people who share knowledge of a certain topic‚ share similar backgrounds‚ and have a common goal. A lot of them also had unique ways of communicating with each other which outsiders could not understand. They give everyone something that makes them feel like they belong somewhere and are important too. Being in one of these communities is a good way to be a part of something with people who are easy to relate to and can help you grow fundamentally
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The purpose of this essay is to connect a discourse community I am a part of and finding a genre that focus on reading and writing. Every human being is a part of discourse community. A discourse community for me is where I am working at. I have been part of this discourse community for three years now. I work at Valle Optical it is an eye care clinic. It is located in Southwest Detroit. I am an assistant. Being an assistant means having to assist patients with any questions they have in regards
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