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Identifying a Discourse Community
We have been a part of many communities. However, there are many aspects that must be evaluated when identifying *discourse* communities.
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What Is A Discourse Community?
Dan Mezler further explains what a discorse community is. Which helped me accurately determine if my own community is a discourse community.
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Connection To Discourse Communities
What Dan Melzer’s view of a discourse community is and how I have notice an example of a discourse community in my life.
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Discourse Communities
What are Discourse Communities? They are all around us and they help the lives of people and the world as we know it. Have you ever been a part of one?
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Discourse Communities
Discourse Communities have a variety of factors that make them up. There are also many different types of those communities.
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How Discourse Communities Effect you
Discourse communities surround you everyday but until you are able to identify them clearly you are unaware of their effect.
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How to Identify a Discourse Community
Finding specific characteristics such as goals, genres, and communication to be able to correctly identify a discourse community.
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Understanding Discourse Communities
Finding a discourse community can be very difficult. To help others, Dan Melzer shared his own story of finding a community that helped him.
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Failure is essential to growth
Everyday we fail at something, but this failure is useful to our writing and the revision process as well as our day to day life.
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Little White Lines
The manner in which we think of revision revolves around the alteration and exclusion of words rather than on a deeper level.
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Improvement is Normal
Using Yeakel and Cedervalls student readings gives us a different perspective on revision, a more comfortable point of view.
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The Importance of Failing
Failing is normally seen as a bad thing; nobody wants to fail but failing brings its own benefits. When one fails, they know what needs changing.
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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