We aren’t meeting for the following two Wednesdays (September 8 & 15), but these things can keep this class fresh in your mind, so when we meet on September 22, you’ll be ready to work!
- If you haven’t done the Swales’ Quotes (for details, look at Agenda for Week 2) yet, you have a small extension: 11:59 PM on Sunday, September 5. If you’ve already done it, say “YAY” and move on to the next thing!
The following assignment is due by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, September 8.
- Create a post that shares a list of three discourse communities you participate in. Use a couple of sentences to describe each discourse community you listed, and discuss the basic “values, assumptions, and ways of communicating” found in each one. Look at the criteria I posted in the Announcement for this week. Post it under Introductory Work and title it Full Name, My Discourse Communities.
Think about the issues/problems that face your three discourse communities, and by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, September 15, complete the following assignment.
- Respond (you only need to hit the “reply” button) to the Discussion Question “Problems and Issues”: Go back to your list of Discourse Communities and name two or three problems or issues that are central to each one.
Continue thinking about your above assignments. By class time on Wednesday, September 22, you need to have done the following:
- You need to have read and reread the the major writing assignment for Unit 1 on OpenLab under Major Assignments, decided on ONE discourse community, identified the issues your DC faces, and chosen whether you’re going to write a speech or a letter to an outside audience. We’ll be discussing your ideas in class, so be prepared! If you have a hard time deciding, bring your issues to the table–we can talk about it!
Deyby Ramirez, My Discourse Community.
As a full time Uber driver, I experience the basics of a discourse community in a daily basis. My colleagues and I communicate in various ways, specially through group chats. There we talk freely and constantly about all Uber/Taxi related issues. We have adopted terms like “instant ping” or “IP”, which stands for every time a driver drops a passenger at the airport and gets another request from the same airport. The fact that I just explained what an “IP” stands for proves that we drivers are part of a local discourse community.