For Monday, read John Swales' "The Concept of Discourse Community." After reading, respond to the following prompt: Consider a discourse community you belong to, and describe how it meets the six characteristics of a discourse community as proposed by Swales. For example, what are it shared goals? What is its lexis? What are its genres?
300 words to your blogs before class Tuesday. We'll be talking about the article on Monday but we'll be talking about your blog posts Tuesday!
This will be the only formal writing due on your blogs this week.
But on Tuesday, you need to come to class with a few possibilities for your discourse community ethnography - that is, a few groups or organizations you would be interested in examining for the assignment. In the past, students have looked at discourse communities such as restaurants, online discussion boards, fraternities/sororities, etc. I want it to be a community you have access to and are interested in finding more about.This could be the example you post on your blog or another idea that you have.
For Wednesday, read "Literacy, Discourse and Linguistics" (WAW 481). No blog post.
Thursday, we'll do in class revisions of the literacy narratives.
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