Category: Wk 4: Concept of Discourse Community
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The Importance of Feedback
Feedback is one of the most essential aspects to creating a successful piece of writing. Feedback helps writers expand their ideas.
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Jillian Grauman
This is about how feedback is super important in the writing community and how crucial it is that you learn how to give good feedback.
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The Problem With “Cinderella Papers”
A brief discussion on the pitfalls of writing “fake first drafts”. Includes some advice from Jillian Grauman concerning how to handle feedback.
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Discourse Community
It’s interesting to think about how many different discourse communities there are and how unaware we might’ve been of them.
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Discourse Communities
Discourse communities and speech communities are two different communities. Using feedback the correct way can help you accomplish so much.
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What Is a Discourse Community ?
According to John Swales, a discourse community is a group that has a broadly agreed set of common public goals. This means that a group of people have come together to work towards something while also communicating in several different ways depending on the community. There is also specific intercommunication that occurs between members. Things…
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The idea of a Discourse Community
John Swales looks into the precise meaning of a Discourse Community elaborating on the differences between “Speech Communities” and “Discourse Community.”
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Discourse Communities
Each discourse is a very unique shared community that only a certain amount of people take part in. You might not even realize you are in a discourse.
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Swale’s Concept
John Swales breaks down the reality of a discourse community and what it entails. Also the idea of genre and specialized language.
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Swales’ Concept of Discourse Community.
John Swales Concept of Discourse Community and how he theorizes the development and sustainability of the discourse community.