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Ezekiel Lang
RWS 1301
Dr. Vierra
Abstract
This article is a bunch of data and fact from professional studies from other authors, who
compiled what they learned and knew about a discourse community. With there studies and
finding I will be seeing if the RWS meet the requirements and what requirements are needed to
Discourse Community
With all the key points targeted and checked off the list of what make a discourse
community a discourse community. The student in the class have common goals and that is to
pass RWS together which we all help out through the second point which is intercommunication
among the members in the class. Blackboard is the classroom intercommunication, we use it
when we need to get in contact with students or teachers. Intercommunication is good for
members in a group so no one can get left out and u always have a way to get in contact with
them when one has questions on anything. RWS class is a discourse community met by the
Literature Review
John Swales is a linguist that is best known for his studies on discourse communities. In
his article, he explained that a discourse community has six characteristics.. A discourse
community is characterized by Swales as a group of members that have a common goal and use
thing to communicate to reach these goals. There are six attributes that are used to characterize a
discourse group network according to Swales (pg. 471), one being having a shared objective or
reason. To be viewed as a discourse community there must be communication with each other,
and the utilization of technology to get in touch with your peers. There is regularly a particular
kind for this communication and every network has its very own lexis which was said by swales
in his article. For there to be a discourse community there should be a sure scope of information.
Each group has its own various objectives, lexis', and types that isolates them from each other
and make them a discourse community. For instance, if a server heard "expo" they would know
precisely what it implied, however in the event that somebody in retail heard expo they probably
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won't have any thought what is being said. One of the standards in a discourse community’s is
All writings are copied from others, they are basically reworded and compiled differently
and in a way that allows the writer and the reader to trust it is something totally new. Realize
that in all composition this is most common. Understanding and agreeing with what Porter
(1986) meant by intertextual iterability since everyone utilize this multiple occasionally in their
writings. Everyone uses this method in every one of their papers, using the base of other with the
same audience or purpose as their own. Comprehending his concept of presupposition since after
noticing this in books and article. What we write may have bits and pieces of other written
works, but it is not entirely consistent of those alone. t our writings also include our person
thoughts and stances on the topic or the manner in which the work is written making it a form of
an original work.
Topic sentence. Discourse communities are people with common goal. John stated that
discourse communities are put together with people with common goals. Discourse communities
help members focus and progress to a goal it also helps with working in a team and
communication skills with one another. While we are learning about the discourse community in
RWS there also are others professional discourse communities throughout society that have its
own language, practices, values, and genres. With discourse community comes its own set of
problems or rebels within the group. in a discourse community they work out their problems by
who present the best research for the group and have the best intentions for the group.” (pg.332)
Methods
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Observations, Interviews. The RWS class had a couple of articles to do their research
with, from swales, porter, and johns’ article and put together things they had to say about a
discourse community.
Discussion
Common Goal
The RWS 1301 has a common goal. Swales defined common goals as a public goal that a
group of people would like to meet using specialized tools that improve the groups work load. (p.
471). No one wants to fail RWS; they want to earn an A, making it a common goal shared
between the class peers. Even though that is an individual accomplishment other student or peers
in class can help you reach that goal, but together you all can reach that goal. This group exist
because its members all decided to come to college and try to get a degree, and our advisor put
RWS on our class schedule. With us in this discourse community we have to help each other get
one step closer to that common goal, for example getting a degree. The discourse community
help society a lot because like the saying goes a group is better then one, meaning one-person
cant make all the decision for other people. JOHNS. With the students that is in RWS class and
passing RWS will put us a step closer to our goal, which is to get a degree. With us getting our
degree we can help the society out in the field that we are majoring in.
Intercommunication
The RWS class uses intercommunication in their discourse community. Swales defined
intercommunication as how people communicate throughout the discourse community (p. 472).
The RWS class uses Blackboard, Outlook, and OneDrive to communicate with each other in Mr.
Vierra RWS class. There are plenty other resources to use to communicate with the discourse
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group, but them are the ones we use in class. We do not live in an isolated society anymore, so
intercommunication is so important because they are a essential to developing other key life
skills. Being able to communicate well with others is often essential to solving problems that can
occur both in our private and professional lives. JOHNS Decision making is another area which
can benefit from good communication skills as it often requires communicating complex
Participatory Mechanism
Topic sentence. Validating Warrant. The participatory mechanism that the RWS class
have is a scheduled class meeting at 7:30 Mondays and Wednesdays. Even one on one office
hours are participatory mechanism. Swales says participatory mechanism are meetings,
Genres
The RWS class uses genres. The class includes ERs and the analysis a lot of articles for
this class. Swales defined genre as some specific lexis (p.473). ERs and the Abs are a few genres
the RWS class use. Add second validating warrant and personal warrant.
Specialized language
In RWS, specialized language is used by all in the class. It consists of a lot of Rhetoric
words from Pathos, Ethos, Logos, and etc. our language go all the from typing essays and even
with speaking to people on how to make people make up their mind or even win an argument.
RWS is an English like class, that teaches how to write professional papers, so with this being a
English class there are a lot of special vocab words we us in the class. Swales defined genre as
‘how things get done, when language is used to accomplish them'. (p.472).
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Hierarchy
The RWS has hierarchy. In this RWS class the professor which is Mr. Vierra is the
expertise in this discourse community which means he is on top of the RWS food chain. With
that expertise the professor job is to be responsible for preparing course materials and teaching
classes to graduate and undergraduate student. The students in the class are the new comers to
the discourse community, because the are there to receive the material that the professor are
instructed to give the students to be successful in his class. The newcomer of the discourse
community which is us students, learn the specialize word for the class from the professor which
he gives us the material and we interpret it. Once the student receives the information it’s our job
to obtain it because it will show up more then often throughout the semester. Johns stated, “there
are always authoritative utterances that set the tone”. (pg.334) That is true no matter what
discourse community you are a part of there will always be a higher up that control everything.
Analysis
After looking over the finding, everything laid out pretty great. And swales and porter
statement article and there claims I believe is one hundred percent understandable and should
Conclusion
The RWS class meet the requirements to be called a Discourse community. The class
have hierarchy which is the professor. The RWS class come with intercommunication for people
in the RWS to communicate with each other easily. Specialize words come up in RWS class that
if someone in another class wouldn’t be able to understand. And last but not least everyone in the
Reference
Discourse community. .
porter, james e. "intertextuality and the discourse community." rhetoric review 5, no. 1 (1986):
34-47.
swales j. The concept of discourse communities. In: wardles e, ed. Writing about writing. boston:
; 2011:466-480.
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