Learning about discourse community in writing is very essential because it helps students learn about their discourse communities. I learned a lot about the use of language in a discourse community. This essay has not only taught others about Pakistani community I have also learned new things about my community. This essay has also helped me move away from five-paragraph essay format. I have also read articles which described the discourse community the author entitled too. This essay has taught
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be classified as a discourse community. For example‚ a youth choir at church‚ a football team‚ and Girl Scouts are all classified as a discourse community. What is this so called discourse community? Well‚ a discourse community is a group of people who all share a set of common goals with each other. Although‚ there are numerous of discourse communities‚ they all use different languages to communicate with the members that are within the group. McCarthy states that “community members share characteristic
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What is online gaming? * An online game is a video game played over some form of computer network‚ using a personal computer or video game console. * "Online gaming is a technology rather than a genre‚ a mechanism for connecting players together rather than a particular pattern of gameplay." Online games are played over some form of computer network‚ typically on the Internet. One advantage of online games is the ability to connect to multiplayer games‚ although single-player online games are
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Investigating a Journalistic Discourse Community When you walk into a newsroom of journalists‚ you will see people reading‚ discussing‚ and writing the news. Journalists from all around the world‚ mostly the United States‚ join in Long Beach‚ California‚ where they collaborate to gather and publish information in the Gazette Newspapers‚ forming a professional discourse community. A discourse community is a group of individuals unified by common interests or goals and who have methods for communicating
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My discourse community that I chose is law. I chose this direction because law is something I’m passionate about. Whether it be defending the rights of an individual‚ or an entire business‚ this is something I see worth doing. Sometime this year‚ I met a friend that shared his passion for law with me. He chose law because of the fifth amendment‚ stating‚ “everyone has the right to not self-incriminate oneself. For example‚ when the government knows you have a document that is self-incriminating‚
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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 the
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How are you Building your Life I have many plans in my life. I want to be a successful person someday. I want to be a rich and become a good father and brother to my family. When I finish my studies I will find a job and earn money. When I earn much money and responsible enough I will build a building. I will build my own big house for my family. I will help my family specially my mother who is lonely at home. I will help my brother to get a job. I will help some poor people to get job and give
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FERPA FERPA according to the latest Federal guidelines of the Department of Education guidelines 2012 defines FERPA as a Federal law that that is administered by the Family Policy Compliance Office and applies to all educational agencies and institutions that receive funding under any program administered by the Department of education (U.S. Department of Education 2010). These guide lines apply according to the USDE that‚ “Parochial and public schools at the elementary and secondary levels generally
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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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In online gaming‚ players are represented by an avatar‚ which is a three dimensional (3D) model used in computer games or a two-dimensional icon like a picture. A player’s identity is not usually revealed. This has led to an internet phenomenon known as gender swapping. Gender swapping is when a player swaps the gender of their identity in the game they are playing. Assortments of studies have been done on gender swapping in online gaming‚ but most of them fail to find the real reason many online
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