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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Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia: The Brotherhood of Music A pair of Ray Ban sunglasses‚ a Polo Ralph Lauren shirt‚ Khaki shorts that extend to an inch above the knees; what is this attire associated with? Most college students would say "frat boys." This is one of the stereotypes associated with fraternities. The immediate assumption is that members of a fraternity are all tools‚ douche bags‚ or any other insult one can think of; this being the general opinion of a normal college student. I am sure
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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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Alpha 1 Alpha Alpha (uppercase Α‚ lowercase α; Greek: Άλφα Álpha) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 1. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Aleph . Letters that arose from Alpha include the Latin A and the Cyrillic letter А. In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for "beginning"‚ or "first" (in a series)‚ reflecting its Greek roots.[1] Uses Greek In Ancient Greek‚ alpha was pronounced [a] when short and [aː] when long. Where
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Discussing Discourses Many people find the concept of a discourse community to be important enough to write about but many have failed to create a clear and universal definition. Three scholars: Porter‚ Swales‚ and Gee each attempt to create their own definition of the concept. Each of their articles has major differences in their interpretation of the notion of discourse communities while still having underlying similarities. The articles all build off the work of others while also introducing
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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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Many people believe the first Black-Greek Lettered organization was Alpha Phi Alpha because most of the literature available to the masses is limited. For many Alpha Phi Alpha marks the beginning of the Black Greek movement in the United States. Looking deeper into the history of Black Greek one would find that there were several attempts at forming a Black fraternal organization before the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity formation at Cornell University beginning in fall 1905. Some of these early formations
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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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