Personal Narrative: My First Discourse Community

My identity can be defined by moments in my life. Moving to Canada, learning English and going to high school are three major moments in my life. Going through these experiences have changed the person in me and made me more confident, stronger, better in everything.

Threads to Which I belong is a book that captivated my soul. As I read through the pages of history, I found myself traveling back in time. Invisible I stood in Mississippi watching a family’s history unfold. As I turned the pages, my emotions changed constantly. I experienced emotions of anger, disgust, sorrow, and happiness. The author has written an outstanding piece of work that forces you to consider researching your own family history.

Throughout life our secondary discourse could very well change multiple times. It could range from the way you and your friends communicate, to the language used in a professional manner within your career. It will almost always be different than your primary discourse and possibly more structured. My secondary discourse is my job, more specifically a veterinary hospital.

This past year, I have been apart of Naperville Central’s brand new Special Spaces club. When my friend approached me and asked me to join, I agreed even though I had no clue what I was involving myself in. In retrospective, I can honestly say that becoming a part of Special Spaces has been one of the most meaningful, fun, and fulfilling experiences I have had in high school.

My first main literacy who be my relationship with God, oh how I need him every day, I could write endlessly about this one, I feel strongly about my connection with the father and it makes me happy to even know the enjoy it has bought into my life .Oh how my soul rejoices every time I think about how much I need him every day he is the center of my peace and I could not start my day without him. He knows my name he is definitely my main literacy every day. The next main literacy would be my job and which I need that in order to live in this world and be a productive citizen in this society. To have money to sustain my lifestyle. My final literacy would be my whole family. They mean the world to me, there is nothing more important to me than

When Vietnamese refer to the term “family”, the majority of them picture the extended family with parents, children, and their relatives. That is to say, Vietnamese family is the mini model of the society where individuals interact and depend on others. The burden of responsibility with other members of the family is significantly heavy: one is expected to assist others who are in needs and will be helped out by others when one is in trouble. Specifically, parents are completely willing to provide their children supports in diverse forms, financially, practically, or emotionally, disregarding the fact of how old their kids have become. Vice versa, the descendants are expected to care for their parents in their elderhood.

A discourse community is a club or group of people who share a particular interest and use a certain register of language to communicate with each other. A register is another way in which how something is said or written and can be just as important as the meaning of the message. We communicate with one another in many ways, either by e-mail, telephone, text, face-to-face, social media or letters, and the language we use allows us to get things done. However, the language and communication method we choose to use will vary depending on the discourse community. John Swales, a professor of linguistics, describes discourse communities as a group of people who share a set of discourse, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of

When I work as team, I has communication with other member so, it has several solution that can help to improve my communication to have more professional. The initially topics is meeting management. The beginning of working should planning meeting. Meeting divide into 3 parts are before, during, and after. In the part of before, I should know the purpose and role of meeting. During meeting, if it is face to face meeting, I should know agenda of the meeting and participants their role for easy to communicate about work. After meeting, I should sure that I and other team member understand the information of the meeting because I may discuss with other team member. In addition, after the meeting finish, I should prepare myself for the next meeting.

The family obligations are a built-in part of life. Each member in the family has his or her own obligations and responsibilities to associate with the other family members. “Families are considered to be the most influential context for the development of social relationships and set the stage for the development of relationships with others” (Khanh T Dinh at al. 1994). However, the family obligations are different between Asian and Western families. Specifically, Vietnamese parents teach their children to understand the complex nature of family obligation when they are little. Vietnamese people distinguish between immediate family and extended family. The Vietnamese kids are taught to respect every single one in the family including relatives

I chose to break the norm of either smiling at strangers or giving them a neutral look when you make eye contact. I decided to give every stranger I passed a confused look like they had just spoken to me in another language. I must admit, this made me feel a bit goofy. I was on the fence as to whether or not to do this in the first place but I decided I just had to. The responses I received were quite comical. A few people asked if I was alright, and one person even asked if I had a problem with them.

One aspect of my identity that has shaped my life experience and the way I see the world is my race. I am an African- American who has Nigerian descent from both parents. Growing up African American is hard for many of us, but we always come together to help each other out. We get judged for our skin color, religion, sexuality, and economic status. When I was younger, I always thought about what other people would say about me and how I looked. Even though it was hard seeing how other races portrayed my race, I have learned to embrace my skin color and not let anybody judge me. The society believes that African Americans are lazy, uneducated, and violent. Things people say about me and my race only make me want to prove myself to them that I am proud of my race and would never change myself for anybody.

One very important moment in my life was one that I had to involve a skill in rhetoric. My best friend, Cole, and I were at odds, and I took it upon myself to tell him that this needed to be fixed before it destroyed our relationship. I had to strategize, but unlike most regular conversations, this one would be harder to prepare for.

One very important moment in my life was one that I had to involve a skill in rhetoric. My best friend, Cole, and I were at odds, and I took it upon myself to tell him that this needed to be fixed before it destroyed our relationship. I had to strategize, but unlike most regular conversations, this one would be harder to prepare for.

A speak is moving on the paper. Tracing every letter with a little spark that flickers. I stick my fingers out to touch it and the instant contact burns me and I drop the paper with a gasp. Light comes up from the ground the second the paper hits the floor, shining so bright it could very possibly light a whole city. I cover my eyes at the brightness of it. The light gets bigger and closer and within less than three seconds, the light surrounds us. I want to scream bloody murder out of pure confusion and fear. Then, I feel as if I'm being sucked forward until my whole body, without my permission, is slowly being lifted off my window seat. I try to grab for Amanda, but everything is gone the second I blink.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we’re really disconnecting from each other. Communication is a crucial part of the human life when it comes to interacting and progressing our society. Ever since the beginning of as much as we can remember, we’ve communicated in many forms such as body language, sign language and written language. Nowadays, we’ve taken socializing to a whole new level. We’ve constructed a form of typed language with the given name, social networking. There are endless social media sites that make it obtainable to connect between various amounts of people. In consideration of the ability that people can interact through social media, most people own an account for engaging. Granting all