claiming they could all have been fabricated or claiming I haven’t proven the choir as a discourse community. That is why I also to elaborate on the Logos-skills that was necessary for me to obtain so as really fit in. One of them is communication skills. According to educator and researcher John Swales in “The concept of Discourse Community”‚ intercommunication and relationship are essential in such communities. So‚ through constant activity and communication in the group‚ I got to know some secret
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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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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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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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first paragraph discussing about Gee’s article‚ you state that it “also describes what a discourse community is and defines its characteristics” (Dobias 7)‚ but I feel that in order to dive deep into the article and reach the heart of it‚ you might also want to say how Gee describes a discourse community. You could say that his article “also describes a discourse community as any group of people that uses a discourse when communicating amongst its members‚ providing several characteristics to identify
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could last a lifetime or end in a minute. That’s why playing your best when you really need to is so important in sports‚ especially among friends and people you look up to‚ the people you go to when you need help with something. The experts of our community are usually the people who have been playing the longest. They are who lead us when we practice or make plays. The last thing you want to do is bring any kind of negativity to the basketball court because it spreads like wild fire. One sarcastic
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There are a large number of Discourse communities exist in the world. Different people may stay in their different community or someone may take many communities. Discourse community is a way let different people‚ who have a same interests‚ using language‚ action‚ interaction‚ values‚ beliefs‚ symbols‚ objects‚ and tools together to place in such a way that other people can recognize them as member of their community (Gee 446). Which means those people may have their special things to show each other
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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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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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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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