Discourse: A Case Study Of Motivation

Mark at a young age challenges himself to accomplish many goals that a 'normal' teenage boy would never even consider. Mark has difficulties

Nick had so many challenges with no limbs and he was depressed for a while. Nick also was almost rejected by his mother. Nick wanted to commit suicide when he was 10! “I felt I had no value, and I thought I would always be a burden to my parents and never get married”. (Nick P8) Nick wanted to be normal, because he was always excluded from things and sometimes laughed at. When he wanted to start a business it failed and someone stole money from him. He has overcome these challenges now, because Nick has had many challenges in his life he now he speaks to the youth about his life. Nick’s family encouraged him to speak to others. “Nick, you can make your dreams come true and reach

A discourse community is a group of people involved in and communicating about a particular topic, issue, or in a particular field. According to the criteria conveyed in “The Concept of Discourse Community” by John Swales, Christianity can be considered as a discourse community because of its common goals, medium of communication, participatory mechanisms, specific genres, and its threshold level of members.

Motivation is a main point in which I am interested and in order to understand more about the topic I have based my review in 2 different sources: Forbes article “Motivation Mystery: How to Keep Employees Productive” and Daniel Pink Ted Talk “The Puzzle of Motivation”.

After reading 80 pages of, “Skud,” by Dennis Foon, I felt motivated by the actions and determination shown by the main characters of the story, especially Andy. In the book, all the characters had a goal or objective and worked hard to reach that goal. Although most people would not advise someone to center their life around one certain thing, I think that when one finds a purpose or objective in life they should always do their best to reach this goal regardless of what others say or thinks of it. In the book, Andy dream was to become a popular actor.Although the possibility of getting cast is low and although he was hurt and unwell, Andy still went to the audition because of that small possibility. After reading about this, I felt determined and motivated by actions like this.

“It was characteristic of Boy throughout his life that he was always the quintessence of something that somebody else had recognized and defined” (Davies 113). He believes that he is in control of every situation, but inside he cannot control his guilt that is still buried deep inside himself. Contrary to Dunstan who feels responsible for problems, Boy runs away from his problems by keeping himself busy. The death of Leola, his wife, clearly shows Boy’s fear of facing problems, for his does not show up for her funeral, “Boy was in England, arranging something or other connected with his Ministry, and duty and the difficulty of transatlantic flights in wartime kept him there”(Davies 194). Boy still yearns for fulfillment even though he achieves greatness in terms of his financial success and his outward appearance. He says, “I feel rotten. I’ve done just about everything I’ve ever planned to do and everybody thinks I’m a success… But sometimes I wish I could get into a car and drive away from the whole damned thing.” (Davies). Boy knows that deep inside he is very unsuccessful. As he gets older, he is supposed to be wiser, but his commitment to achieving the external greatness has stopped him from being fully satisfied. There is an immense difference in the lives of Boy and Dunstan. Boy’s focus on his external being causes him live an unfulfilled life, like a ‘boy’ who cannot see that there is

According to Porter, “A ‘discourse community’ is a group of individuals bound by a common interest who communicate through approved channels and whose discourse is regulated. A discourse community shares assumptions about what objects are appropriate for examination and discussion, what constitutes ‘evidence’ and ‘validity’ and what formal conventions are followed (38-39).” These five texts collectively constitute a community of discourse through their application of common language norms, characteristics, patterns and rhetorical strategies. All of the authors are writing about corresponding ideas and discussing their identical goals; the prevalence of gender inequality in the legal profession and the unjust consequences derived from it. Similarly, all five sources intentions are to oppose the standard viewpoint that gender inequality has diminished and provide evidence to support this claim. Their ideas of remedying gender inequality in the legal profession overlap as well as contradict one another.

A discourse community is defined as a group of people involved in and communicating about a particular topic, issue, or in a particular field. We all belong to multiple discourse communities.To earn a position of a discourse community one must possess accurate knowledge, establish reliability of members to be accepted and learn to persuade other members of the community. The discourse community that I identify with personally and the profession I plan to pursue is the world of film production. However, there are many jobs that need to be done on a film set leading to there being multiple discourse communities within the film industry, what I want to focus on specifically is the DP, otherwise known as the “director of photography”. According to “The Concept of Discourse Community,” by educator and researcher John Swales, a discourse community is defined by six characteristics.

One of the broadest disciplines in academia is Sociology since there are numerous branches that can be studied. The wide range of topics in this field are mainly organized through written work which allows those in this discourse community to stay connected. In the book titled Discourse Communities: The Rhetoric of Disciplines, Gary D. Schmidt and William J. Vande Kopple, explain that discourse communities are a group of people who share ways in how they present claims, organize, analyze and communicate in their discipline. This is significant to note because each discipline consists of different audiences that can comprehend jargon and methodology differently depending on their discourse community. In most academic disciplines the difference

He was so determined but he only realized on Doodles seventh birthday that he did it all for the wrong reasons. He taught Doodle how to walk so that he didn't have to look stupid in front of his friends, not to be nice and just show Doodle how to walk like a friend. Then once we was done teaching him how to walk, he taught him how to do other things like swim, climb, and how to be as athletic as he was. He was always trying to make the brother he never had. But even though he’s determined to teach him all of these nice things, he still is only doing to for self gain. Some people would say that he is stubborn and desperate, but when I think of those words I think of them being last minute and you have no other options. But in this case Doodle was not going to school for a little while and the narrator could have done anything in that scenario. He could have sucked it up and wheeled him around, he could have killed him like he was going to do before, or he could have not done anything, but he choose to teach Doodle how to walk. But overall, the narrator was determined to teach Doodle how to

In this short story, Macleod is trying to say that it is satisfactory to go out and live on their own if one believe one can do it. He wanted to get a message through to the young adults and teenagers that it is good to move out and go to live on your own. This made the personality, when someone is experienced by their own become a good person. Such person can see the world from a different perspective. If the working environment of the first job is too harsh then existence oneself became meaningless, and muddle through with self-destructive awareness [a critical turning point].

Writers always have a way of “faking it until you make it” as Bartholomae says but there is a whole other side to this using rhetoric. Using rhetoric will help aid your writing and will connect with all academia of any kind in any setting that will come toward you. To connect with the academy you will have to know you have to pretend to be the most credible source to your readers. You will also have to see the certain situation you are in and the specific audience that it’s towards. Writers have to write for a specific context to persuade an audience of the academy by acting and writing like you are an expert while explaining the certain purpose of the text. During this process your writing will progressively turn you into the expert

He yearns to live his own individual life and have some say in making his own choices. His girlfriend Cassie is always encouraging him to be proud of how stupendous his life is and how bright the future is for him. She never acknowledges that he simply doesn’t want to do what everyone is advising him to. When he is around Ella, he feels something entirely contradistinct. She isn’t about all the planned

A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. John Swales defines a discourse community as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals." The community I choose to identify with is special education. Special education teachers, or aids, really dedicate themselves and their time to others who need special assistance or treatment. The California Department of Education supports high quality educational programs for California’s big student population. According to the ideas from the federal government, the variety of the education working environment is one of the fastest growing areas of the American economy. The importance in understanding this career includes emotional, and physical growth of each student. Working with students who have disabilities can be very rewarding, but it is sometimes emotionally demanding and physically draining. Before stepping into the job of becoming a special education teacher, it is important to understand the patience that is needed in order to work with special children.

The speech I am analyzing was given by Jon Bowers, a UPS driving and delivery trainer, in Atlanta Georgia in July 2017. Bowers was giving a motivational speech on why we should aim for perfection and not fear failure. He was giving this speech to an audience of listeners at a TED convention. The audience appears to be composed of a wide variety of age groups from multiple different backgrounds. The audience likely already had interest in the subject matter as they chose to attend speech knowing what it was about. The audience is rather large and likely contains several hundred people. The target audience is unclear as the topic is so broad that it can apply to basically anyone.