We aren’t meeting on Monday, September 6 or Wednesday, September 8, but these things can keep this class fresh in your mind, so when we meet on Monday, September 13, you’ll be ready to participate!
Each of these assignments aren’t due until class time on Monday, September 13, but I recommend in the strongest terms that you work on these this throughout coming week (and work on them in the order I’ve listed below–they won’t make sense, otherwise):
- 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.
- Respond (you only need to hit the “reply” button on the following hypertexted link) 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.
- Read the major writing assignment for Unit 1 on OpenLab under Major Assignments. We’ll talk more about it during our next class, but you should start thinking/planning/writing it now (the above assignments will help).
2. Problem and Issues:
1. Issue: A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback.
2. problems: In addition to owning genres, it has acquired some specific lexis.
3. Issues: A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members
2. Problem and Issues:
1. Issue: A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback.
2. problems: In addition to owning genres, it has acquired some specific lexis.
3. Issues: A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members