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A discourse community: 1) has a broadly agreed set of common public goals; 2) has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members; 3) uses its participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback; 4) utilizes and possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims;
about this discourse community. Discuss ways of parsing the definition of discourse community for analysis of the data. Have students prepare a final report on their research to describe the discourse community to an outsider. For examples of ethnogra-phies of discourse communities, see Beaufort (1991), Fishman (1988), Heath (1983). 2.
The scope of the book makes it versatile enough for a variety of WAW approaches, including the most common ones focused on either “literacy and discourse,” “language and rhetoric,” or “writing and writers’ practices” (Downs and Wardle, “Re-Imagining”). In addition to the introduction, Writing about Writing includes five ...
Because rhetoric, by Aristotle’s definition, is a fundamentally place-based paradigm, understanding discourse through this lens can help students, first-year writers specifically, enter into the discourse communities––the ecosystems––of the academy and elsewhere. If a writer is able to recognize the places, both rhetorical and ...
In the classroom, there is a mix of (at least) three different discourse communities—the academic, the student, and the public (itself an underdeveloped term sometimes used simply as a foil for the academic community). I separate student from public because I see the student discourse community as being in a unique and tense position. It ...
Furthermore, we used Anne Beaufort’s domains of writing knowledge—process, content, genre, rhetorical, and discourse community knowledge (College)—as a heuristic to examine student talk. We found that most co-constructing conversations supported students both in abstracting their writing knowledge beyond a single classroom context and in ...
The Concept of Discourse Community: Some Recent Personal History John M. Swales Articles. Writing through Big Data: New Challenges and Possibilities for Data-Driven Arguments Aaron Beveridge Dwelling in the Ruins: Recovering Student Use of Metaphor in the Posthistorical University Daniel P. Richards
Autoethnography: 8-10 page paper narrating and analyzing how a discourse community—with attention to its codes, customs, and ways of being—has contributed to the student’s socialization. Peer Review Worksheets: basic review sheets which ask the reader to evaluate the writer’s paper, its capacity to engage readers, and its application of ...
This pattern of questioning (an emphasis on “small details” and a lack of emphasis on rhetorical knowledge) can be seen throughout the catalogue of questions: questions about discourse community knowledge (30.3% of all questions) were particularly weighted in administrative knowledge, and were often about due dates and technology use ...
Jason Arthur and Anne Case-Halferty. In Beyond the Culture Wars (1992) and, a decade later, in Clueless in Academe (2003), Gerald Graff offered arguments that spurred much debate about the content, nature, and efficacy of academic intervention into the arguments of public life. In the 1990s, he urged teachers to “teach the conflicts,” to ...