Discourse Communities

This community has great potentials that are part of the discourse community. For instance, people from the hotel industry have common goals, they work for the purpose to improve their selves, their knowledge and be able to provide a better information about the hotel to the customer. They are require to learn and know more about their company , its history and chain if any; these common goals lead the employee to perform and develop a better job to acquire a higher level position. As a linguistic John Swales says, “Discourse community will lead us to be more knowable about our career and to have a better perspective of our desire goals”. By saying so we can be more informed about our career and we can determine if that is want we want or if we can follow a different career or goal.

Discourse communities have existed and been discussed for many years. To become a member of a discourse community one must be a part of something that many people can relate to, experience is a key part of this. At the start of my freshman year I was subjected to change; my life was moved from one location to another, and I was therefore forced to change schools. This changeover had a significant effect on my life moving forward. I had to learn to adjust in a new place, and adapt my personality to make myself more open and outgoing. This task was difficult to say the least, as it was the first time in my life where I was faced with meeting new people, and practically starting over, isn’t the unknown the scariest of all?. However, I was never alone in my struggle. Millions of people throughout the world have been put into the same situation as myself, sometimes even more than once. I am part of a discourse community consisting of students who have moved schools and been forced to adapt and fit into their new situations. Being a member of this community has taught me that life comes with challenges, as

A discourse community is a group of communicators with common goals or purposes that use communication to achieve these goals. A disclosure community goals influence specific genres it uses, and the expectations for communication. Some students here in college have yet to know what they want to major in. Being in the disclosure community has many different options to chose from. The varieties go from radio broadcasting to audio mixing. There is also sports analysis and Video production. The specific major that I chose was video production. As I said before many college students are undecided in what they want to major in, and for me I believe that majoring in a communications class like this is highly recommended.

Present a clear picture of your discourse community. Who are its members? What specialized language/texts/rituals are associated with it? Why should it be studied at all? You should have discussed these ideas in your research proposal. Here is where you realize them with materials you gathered from your discourse community.

Joining a discourse community is something we have all experienced, whether we realized it or not. To earn a position in a discourse community we have to possess accurate knowledge and be relatable to the members to be accepted. I used to have a position in part of a discourse community on my high school key club. There I learned to be a leader and was able to establish a reliability to my peers and the people in the other organizations we have helped. Even though I had done some community service in previous years on my own. This was completely different, in this community not only did I learn to work with others to help the community but also how use ethos, pathos and logos to persuade my peer to help some of the charities that I thought

What is a discourse community? According to John Swales, a respected written communication analyst, a discourse community is described as a group of people that have the same goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. In addition, “A discourse operates within conventions defined by communities, be they academic disciplines or social groups” (Swales, 119). This is not be confused with a speech community, “a community sharing knowledge of rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech” (Swales 121). In determining whether or not a group is a discourse community, there are several certain rules, rather a list of criteria, in which

The idea of organization and interaction among people comes from a long time ago. It has been seeing so many organizations, groups and associations being created around world with the purpose of bringing together people, who share similar ideas, perspectives and interests. Not different from other places around the world, in University of Oklahoma- Norman Campus, there is a religious group called Nations United – life group, composing mainly by international students.. People might think that the unique goal of this group is encouraging them to grow deeper in their relationship with God, but there are so others goals such as meeting new people and places, encouraging and building relationships between it's members, and having fun. The members need to interact and be informed about meetings and events so genre of writing such as social medias and website are used to provide these information. This paper

I have chosen this career path because, I love working with children and I do not wish to stray far from the position I already have. There are also many benefits to being a preschool director, such as, more compensation, more likely to receive employer provided health care and free childcare. Free childcare is very important to me, childcare is very expensive and it’s hard to trust people with your children. I would feel much more comfortable if my children could come to work with me. To achieve the job title of preschool director, I would first need my degree.

My discourse community is SESHOLLOWATERBOYZ or S.H.W.B. that is four friends Bones, Xavier Wulf, Chris Travis, and Eddy Baker, and their fans. I’m in the fans section of the discourse community, but the artists consider all real fans a part of S.H.W.B. Which is why I don’t classify my discourse community as “Fans of S.H.W.B.” Bones older brother Elliott also deserves to be mentioned, because he is the man behind the scenes and has set up tours for S.H.W.B. and is the closest thing to a manager they have. My discourse community is really cool to the people in it.

Discourse communities often have their own languages within one another, that help them communicate with the members. When trying to reach a certain type of a discourse community you use the same type of communication that they are using at the time or it will cause confusion. If you are not apart of the community, you must be careful because you might confuse the audience you are trying to reach. You might even forget the purpose of your message to that community. I will be talking about my soccer team’s community because it shows how we communicate with one another within our community and also with other teams in our district.

In his article "The Concept of Discourse Community," John Swales reports that a certain group of people can be described as a discourse community if that group could share some characteristics. In order to figure out whether or not those characteristics apply to a certain group of people, a methodology, which is a closer study of the behaviors and activities of the group, must be conducted throughout observations and interviews with some of the members. This paper conveys a study of a group of workers in Dayton Towers Luxury Apartments, and then relates, if possible, the results to the standards of discourse community that Swales describes in his article, followed by some explanations of what was learned from this experience.

Teaching has always been an occupation that amazed me. I believe it to be one of the most important jobs that anyone could ever embrace. A person choosing their career to be a teacher is essentially choosing to take on the role that is similar to DNA. Teachers are the group of people that pass on knowledge (which is what DNA does in our bodies), through education to the rest of us. Imagine the pressure on them. Imagine for one second that you were given this task. To teach another person a certain subject in such a way so that, the person that you are teaching can incorporate this knowledge to their daily life. Could you confidently teach

30 percent of Early Childhood educators change or leave the field completely every year. Think of that percentage, 30 percent altogether. That is a pretty large number to factor in annually. “It is estimated that staff turnover can cost, at a MINIMUM $3,000 for each lost employee.” (Page 200) Not only is it hard on the company and director when employees turn over, but it also becomes hard on the children and families at the childcare center because they have created a personal relationship with the employee! As most people know, there has always been a major factor that plays into the childcare field and that is low wages and poor benefits. Whether you are a teacher or a director, you really have to have passion for the field of childcare

Discourse Communities are everywhere but we just don 't realize them. You 're even part of a few on a daily basis. The definition of a discourse community that was provided in the “Discourse Community,” article by Schmidt and Kopple states, “ it 's a group of people who share a ways to claim, organize, communicate, and evaluate meanings”. Basically it’s where two or more people concentrate their attention on the same issue or idea. For example, a place where you work is a discourse community. All of the people working there have a similar style of communicating, thinking, evaluating issues, and lastly the methods they use while they 're working.

The discourse community I share with my sister is no different. It has existed since we first gained conscious awareness of one another, and has continued to develop over the years. My interactions with my sister, from our methods of communications to our range of actions and responses have all played a viable role in developing the bonds between us. These elements come together toward a common sense of familial care and appreciation for one another. One point in particular, which this community continuously makes in our everyday lives is that of communication.