Category: Weekly Assignment Response (Page 6 of 10)

Discourse community

 

 Discourse community:Whatsapp friends group named girls

 

 The group chat was founded in high school by a group of friends who wanted to maintain contact outside of school. The community chat is open to all questions. We all come from different cultural backgrounds, and none of us speak the same languages, so learning different cultures and languages from each other is very ecstatic. We share music, memes and everything that helps to grow our friendship,makes plans for getting togethers.  Our way of understanding and communicating is so high that sometimes we understand each other when we speak other languages in front of each other.  

We all go to the same college and go for the same major and some are more experienced than each other, and it was hard for some of us during the pandemic, so the group began importing the concept of a tighter schedule and study time together and homework assistance.  The group administrator is the first of us that went to collège and has the highest gpa . Not all of us are in college, the rest have stayed in high school and have learned some tips from us from college. From what I understood, a circle of friends is the most utter form of  a discourse community .We support each other at every step of the way to accomplish the goals we set for ourselves and uplift each other.

Week 4 Weekly Assignment (Feb. 23rd)

STEP 3: Find and Analyze Your Artifact

Find one artifact from your Discourse Community. The artifact might provide information about the DC’s mode of communication, values or goals, specific lexis, etc.

 It is preferable if the artifact is a primary source. The artifact should provide information about the Discourse Community or be meaningful to the community. 

Examples of artifacts: an interview with a member of the community, a song, a speech, an example of the DCs publications (brochure, newsletter), letters, a poem, a book, biography/ autobiography, a tattoo, memes) 

Due Thursday 2/25

 

What artifact are you going to choose? WHY are you going to use this artifact?
Description of Artifact

What does the artifact look like? Where is it?  Why is this artifact important to your DC? How does your DC use the artifact? Describe the artifact and how it is used!

Genre/ Audience/ Purpose

What is the genre of the artifact?

Who is the intended audience of the artifact?

What is the purpose of the artifact?

Rhetorical Appeals

Does the artifact contain examples of ethos, pathos or logos? Find it and describe it! 

How does the artifact develop credibility?

How does the artifact appeal to the emotions of the members of the DC?

How does the artifact appeal to the logic of the DCs members?

How effective is the message?

What is the voice/ tone of the artifact? (formal, informal, etc)

Navigating genres

I feel like this text is essay type because it is trying to teach something and providing the evidence for it. The intended audience for it are writers and students that have to write for their English class , the author is teaching us to know the subject we going to write about to have a perfectly writing plan laid out and figure out the genre . Asking yourself the right questions before starting is how the author process her writing to find her own genre and write the way that a professor would ask her to write. The purpose is laid out in the text when she state ” When I started writing this essay, I had some ideas of what I wanted to say. But first, I had to determine what this essay might look like. I’ve written a lot letters, nonfiction pieces, scholarly articles, rants but
this was my first time writing an essay to you, a composition student.What features, I asked myself, should go into this essay? How personal
could I get? What rhetorical moves might I use, effectively or ineffectively? ” The author have utilized others work and tried to define her own writing to come up with her own genre. In the past I have enjoyed books in the fantasy genre and romance . Academically speaking I follow a more structured standard in writing but for my enjoyment I like to go out of my comfort zone.

 

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