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Genre & Lexis
Genre and lexis are a big part of discourse communities and share common ground of bringing ideas together to further projects within the group.
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Genre’s Significance in DCs
What makes genres so special in writing? What does it have to do with writing and why is it important to know the different definition?
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Discourse communities in day to day life
Everyday we partake in Discourse communities without knowing. Here are examples in which people can participate in every day.
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Genre & Lexis
Genre and lexis are important tools to use within a discourse community, and identifying them and knowing how to use them will help with communication.
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What Genres and Lexis Are
Dives into what genres and lexia really are and how they are connected to discourse communities. Understand how to apply these definitions.
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Genre’s Significance in Discourse Communities
Within discourse communities, familiar recurring scenarios occur to which members expect a common / typified response AKA genres.
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Genre in a Different Perspective
Knowing genre is more than knowing its structure or form; it means knowing specific language, rules, and goals of communication in a setting.
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Genres and Writing Disciplines
What is a genre? What is a discipline? What you might immediately think defines a genre is much different in the writing world.
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The Meaning of “Genre” for Writing Scholars
Amy J. Devitt has given the word genre a new meaning for her discourse community of writing scholars. This is why I agree with this lexis
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The Concept of a Genre
What Amy J. Devitt’s new concept of a genre is and how I agree with it because of the way it impacts individuals writing pieces.
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Understanding Genre and Lexis
To most, the word “genre” means a specific classification, when discussing discourse communities however, it means something else entirely.
Categories
- Overview, Wk 1: Relationship with Writing
- Topic 3: Discourse Communities
- Wk 10: Authority
- Wk 11: Identity
- Wk 12: Situating Rhetoric
- Wk 13: Demonstrating Values through Genres
- Wk 15: Function of a Cover Letter
- Wk 2: Rhetorical Reading
- Wk 3: Writing the Right Words (in Context)
- Wk 4: Process Questions (Lamott/Dila, Scirica/Contreras/Brainstorming/Finding)
- Wk 5: Relationship with Revision (Lamott, Dila, Reid)
- Wk 6: Iterative Writing (Sommers, Brooke/Carr/Downs, or Yeakel/Cedervall)
- Wk 8: Community Membership
- Wk 9: Enacting Genres
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