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    the topic at hand. Discourse communities refer to groups of people that have the same goal and by communicating and working together they try to achieve this goal. Everyone belongs to many different groups depending on their activities and involvement in whatever it is that they participate in. Personally, four different discourse communities that I belong to include medical interpreter employee, soccer team member, pre-med student and group

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    safe community, the Discourse Community serves a place to build trust, respect, and communication skill. According to Merriam Webster dictionary, the word discourse means to express oneself especially in oral communication. Discourse community should be a place where one can live comfortably as it own self and not concealing its’ negative side. It should be a place where everybody treated each others like a family and where one can express its true feeling. Bethel Worship group is a community that

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    Atoro 2/1/15 English 180 Litle Discourse Community What is a discourse community? According to John Swales authors of the article of discourse community, a discourse community is a group of people working together to towards a common goal. Examples of people working together to share a common goal are religious groups, students studying a certain major, fans, student, and teachers. In all my 19 years of being alive, I never heard of the term called discourse community but I have heard of other words

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    Joining into a “fandom discourse community” has more extravagant depth than the simplistic “claiming a team” and representing them solely on game night. Authentic members develop deep emotional investment into the events that circulate around their team. Whether it be voluntary or unknowingly, these passionate individuals over any given subject or matter often find themselves surrounded with or acquainted with those of similar connotation. This is how discourse communities are developed, through

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    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

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    Discourse communities are everywhere. Everywhere we and go and almost everything we do relates or falls into a discourse community of some sort. Whether it’s a long, pointless conversation on the phone with a best friend or being part of a school croquet club, it’s part of a unique discourse community in some way. Every discourse has it’s own distinct qualities and almost all have a different way of communicating. These discourses are strong influences on all of our personalities. The way every human

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    finally came up with what I have now. This was also affected by the research that I did on my topic. My problem within my discourse community was negative stereotypes about Greek life, and my discourse community was Theta Chi Fraternity. I learned that discourse communities, rhetoric and genre are all connected with one or multiple problems that can be found inside the community. The genre because I needed a way to communicate the problem and the inaccurate stereotypes that are amplified by the media

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    Club for more than two years now, and I have never regretted doing so. The club provides its members a chance to build a community among students who share a common interest in Economics while acquainting ourselves with economic research and related field. Moreover, my experience of being a member at Economics club presents to me an introduction to the concept of discourse community, as Linguist John Swales defines, which is constituted by six different characteristics, as a threshold level of members

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    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

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    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

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