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Discourse Communities

An Overview. Discourse Communities. Reflect on our class so far…. What is the most important or most useful thing you’ve learned about who you are as a reader, as a writer, and as astudent ?

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Discourse Communities

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  1. An Overview Discourse Communities

  2. Reflect on our class so far… • What is the most important or most useful thing you’ve learned about who you are as a reader, as a writer, and as astudent? • What kinds of connections can you make to the readings and writing you’ve done in the past? What connections can you see between the readings? • Text-to-self • Text-to-world • Text-to-text

  3. Let’s Review: • What are the six defining characteristics that Swale’s uses to identify a Discourse Community?

  4. Goals • “A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals” (471).

  5. Intercommunication • “A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members” (471).

  6. Participation • “A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback” (472).

  7. Genres • “A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims” (472).

  8. Lexis • “In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has acquired some specific lexis” (473).

  9. Expertise • “A discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise” (473).

  10. Is it a Discourse Community? • Goals • Intercommunication • Participation • Genres • Lexis • Expertise

  11. A football team • Goals • Intercommunication • Participation • Genres • Lexis • Expertise

  12. A student council • Goals • Intercommunication • Participation • Genres • Lexis • Expertise

  13. Wayne State University • Goals • Intercommunication • Participation • Genres • Lexis • Expertise

  14. DIA volunteers • Goals • Intercommunication • Participation • Genres • Lexis • Expertise

  15. Tutoring Groups • Goals • Intercommunication • Participation • Genres • Lexis • Expertise

  16. Composition Scholars • Goals • Intercommunication • Participation • Genres • Lexis • Expertise

  17. Occupants of WSU dorms • Goals • Intercommunication • Participation • Genres • Lexis • Expertise

  18. Our class • Goals • Intercommunication • Participation • Genres • Lexis • Expertise

  19. Discussion • Swales argues that it is possible to participate in a discourse community without being fully assimilated to it. What does this mean?

  20. Discussion • Consider a time when you participated in a discourse community but resisted it or were not assimilated into it. What happened?

  21. Discussion • Do you understand your own reading and writing experiences differently now that you’ve read Swales’ description of how discourse communities work? • How can this understanding help you navigate new discourse communities in the future?

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