{"id":70723,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/make-sure-to-read-the-instructions-especially-the-last-sentences-only-kim-wood"},"modified":"2017-08-18T06:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T06:15:13","slug":"make-sure-to-read-the-instructions-especially-the-last-sentences-only-kim-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/make-sure-to-read-the-instructions-especially-the-last-sentences-only-kim-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"make sure to read the instructions especially the last sentences (only Kim Wood)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><b>Discourse Community Project<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>You will turn in one-two quality paragraphs for *each* of the first seven questions and two-three paragraphs in&nbsp;response to #8.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A discourse community exhibits six characteristics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>members share goals,<\/li>\n<li>communicate with each other, and<\/li>\n<li>provide information and feedback to each other using<\/li>\n<li>specific genres with a<\/li>\n<li>specialized vocabulary. The community<\/li>\n<li>has enough expert members to get started. (Swales)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By such a definition, coin collecting, adoptive&nbsp;parenting, and women\u2019s lacrosse could all&nbsp;be discourse communities for people who actively communicate with others about those&nbsp;subjects. But with this assignment, we\u2019re&nbsp;focusing you on discourse communities that will be&nbsp;important to your future as a student and in the work world.<\/p>\n<p><b>Your Discourse Community<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>one-two quality paragraphs:&nbsp;<\/b>What is the discourse community you\u2019re studying?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>What academic majors, departments, and disciplines is it related to?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>What jobs do its members typically hold?<\/li>\n<li>What defines membership in this discourse community?<\/li>\n<li>Where did you find information about your discourse community?<\/li>\n<li>What larger discourse communities is yours a part of?<\/li>\n<li>What are some of the smaller discourse communities within yours?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Writing in Your Discourse Community<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>one-two quality paragraphs:&nbsp;<\/b>How does your discourse community communicate? What forms, methods, media, and&nbsp;genres does it use? (We will learn more about genres throughout the semester.)<\/li>\n<li><b>one-two quality paragraphs:&nbsp;<\/b>How important is writing in your discourse community? Ask professionals in your area&nbsp;what percentage of their time they spend writing and how important good writing is to&nbsp;their advancement.<\/li>\n<li><b>one-two quality paragraphs:&nbsp;<\/b>Does your discourse community communicate in non-verbal ways? Can you give&nbsp;examples? If possible, hang out in the halls or the websites of your discourse community&nbsp;and see what messages you get from such things as the flyers on bulletin boards and the&nbsp;images on screens.<\/li>\n<li><b>one-two quality paragraphs:&nbsp;<\/b>What kinds of evidence does your discourse community value? That is, how can someone&nbsp;writing in your discourse community establish credibility and authority?<\/li>\n<li><b>one-two quality paragraphs:&nbsp;<\/b>What can you learn about writing papers in your discourse community? For this part of&nbsp;the project, you have three choices, though doing all three would be the best way to go.\n<ul>\n<li>Find actual instructions for an assignment, project, or job in your discourse community and&nbsp;analyze them.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Interview someone teaching in your discourse community, &nbsp;trying to find out what the&nbsp;teacher\u2019s goals are&nbsp;when assigning a paper and what grading issues and pet&nbsp;peeves the teacher\u2019s students should know about.<\/li>\n<li>Find people working in a job related to your discourse community and ask them&nbsp;how much they write, for what purposes, and in what form.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>&nbsp;How You Connect to Your Discourse Community<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;7.&nbsp;<b>one-two quality paragraphs:&nbsp;<\/b>What subjects in your discourse community particularly interest you? Are there issues&nbsp;you\u2019d like to explore that are relevant to your discourse community? Could members of&nbsp;your discourse community benefit from your knowledge? As you research your discourse&nbsp;community, keep thinking about potential subjects for your genre experiments later in the&nbsp;semester.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;8.&nbsp;<b>two-three quality paragraphs:<\/b>&nbsp;Reflect on the most interesting and relevant information&nbsp;you\u2019ve discovered&nbsp;about your discourse&nbsp;community. What surprised you? What have you found that makes communication in&nbsp;your discourse community similar to or different from that in other discourse&nbsp;communities? Look particularly for things we take for granted in one discourse&nbsp;community but do very differently in another. What resources were most useful to you in&nbsp;your research? (Be prepared to present to your classmates 2-3 minutes about what you wrote.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Your paper should have:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Detailed answers&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Reflection: what does this process teach you about discourse communities, genres, and&nbsp;writing in general?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Desired learning outcomes:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students will&nbsp;understand the concept of \u201cdiscourse community\u201d&nbsp;and how it affects&nbsp;everything we write<\/li>\n<li>Students will be prepared to analyze and successfully write in new discourse communities as they progress through the university and in their careers<\/li>\n<li>Having highlighted and discussed similarities and differences between discourse&nbsp;communities, students will know what to look for and what to change as they move&nbsp;between discourse communities<\/li>\n<li>Students will find in their discourse community subjects and genres for their genre&nbsp;experiments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Transfer Skills:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to analyze new discourse communities and prepare to communicate in them<\/li>\n<li>The ability to choose the most effective genre for a specific context<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>You will be graded on:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Depth of research and completeness of answers<\/li>\n<li>Thoughtfulness of answers to question 8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Six characteristics of discourse communities from John Swales, \u201cThe Concept of Discourse&nbsp;Community,\u201d&nbsp;Writing about Writing: A College Reader. Ed. Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs.&nbsp;Boston: Bedford\/St. Martin\u2019s, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><b>make sure to read the instructions and follow them step by step<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>So, my topic is about Islam religion.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>And please type it as a second language not first, like what you did first time.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>THANKS<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discourse Community Project You will turn in one-two quality paragraphs for *each* of the first seven questions and two-three paragraphs in&nbsp;response to #8. A discourse community exhibits six characteristics: members share goals, communicate with each other, and provide information and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/make-sure-to-read-the-instructions-especially-the-last-sentences-only-kim-wood\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}