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    When one has authority in a discourse community they need to know how to use it appropriately. In Wardle’s reading she gives an example of this about a guy named Alan joining a discourse community within his workplace. As we know, Alan was a computer support specialist in the humanities department, who was young and just out of college. Alan left his first job because he thought that he was not granted any responsibility (291). He then found another job within the university working on computers

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    identity within a larger community, when entering new writing contexts, who has authority in a discourse community, and, how might negotiation with authority affect an outsider? When we write an individual piece before we are aware of discourse communities, we as writers have no rules because we are the writers and readers of our own works. However, once we as individuals communicate within a community we share concepts that we understand while learning what a communities’ limitations and rules are

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    mask along with physical data. One discourse community dedicated to protecting the rights to anonymity is the Tor Project, a worldwide group that helps create an anonymous browser to hide identity details and participates in establishing it in journalism, academia, activism, and normal users. The exploration of the rights of anonymity will be examined through the discourse community characteristics of Tor by reviewing Porters and Swales works in discourse communities, by using methods of primary investigation

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    class, we have discussed what discourse communities are and how they are integrated into everyday life. Each one of these communities consist of people who share similar goals, have specialized vocabulary, and have a priority to implement a language that mutually enables members to function together towards those goals. A discourse community that I had decided to become a part of a couple of years ago would be the tennis team. The tennis team is in fact a discourse community because it is full of people

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    The Worship Center A discourse community is a group of people who share a particular interest and use certain language to communicate with each other. You probably belong to many discourse communities and didn’t even knew it. I belong to a variety of them and they help me out abundantly. Think about it, your discourse community help you out mentally, physically, and emotionally. One discourse community I belong to is The Worship Center. I love being apart if TWC because the entire church is dynamic

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    creates friendships that last a lifetime. Discourse Communities are perfect examples of these characteristics. Discourse communities are groups

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    Discourse Community Study

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    1. What is the discourse community you are studying? The discourse community that I chose was bearded dragons and other animals of similar characteristics. a. What academic majors, departments, and disciplines is it related to? This discourse community relates to the major of animals sciences and/or the study of life, Biology. b. What jobs do its members usually hold? The members usually hold jobs like veterinarian, veterinary technician, animal care specialist, or general biologist. c. What defines

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    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

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    A discourse community is a group of individual who all have the same shared ideals, beliefs, values, and rules--all communicated with using the discourse community’s own established language. For example, a grouping of innovative scientists are describing new ways of curing diseases, using their own terminologies some people may find confusing because they are possibly not a part of that community overall. A foreigner traveling to America may find the culture to be puzzling and conflicting with how

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    Discourse Community Essay

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    participation and addition of knowledge in discourse communities. A discourse community is a group of people that develop and share a sense of identity primarily through the sharing and exchanging of information on a specific subject or field. The two main form of communication in discourse communities are through reading and writing. Through reading one becomes familiar and starts to understand a community, and writing is when one participates in it. Each discourse community develops its own unique technical

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