ethnographers
- a research method central to knowing the world from the standpoint of its social relations.
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- Oct 2020
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These observations suggest dis-course communities will vary, both intrinsically and in terms of the member's perspective, in the degree to which they impose a world-view.
There are many different types of communities in the world and people can be a part of as many as they want as long as they share the common interest or goal of the other people.
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epistemic
- relating to knowledge
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The discourse community I have discussed meets all six of the proposed defining criteria: there are common goals, participatory mechanisms, information exchange, community specific genres, a highly specialized terminology and a high general level of expertise.
It seems like there is a lot to go into creating and maintaining a discourse community but it also seems like a lot of people are able to do it.
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There are scheduled meetings, including an Annual General Meeting, that takes place in London, but rarely more than a dozen members attend.
It said earlier in this article that if someone doesn't communicate well or anything they will technically not be part of the community. So, based on this statement regarding the general meeting that happens, I wonder if a lot of people are kicked out and more people brought in because they couldn't attend meetings or get to participate.
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The membership varies in other ways: a few are rich and have acquired world-class collections of classic rarities, but many are not and pursue their hobby interest with material that costs very little to acquire.
To be in one of these communities, you do not have to be rich or poor which is an important aspect because everyone can join if they please and have the common interest.
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Currently there are about 320 members scattered across the world, but with major concentrations in Great Britain, the USA and Hong Kong itself and minor ones in Holland and Japan.
I didn't think that people in one discourse community could be spread out across the world because I thought they had to actually meet and talk about their common goal. So, I think it is kind of amazing that they are spread so far around.
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This specialization may involve using lexical items known to the wider speech communities in special and technical ways,
It's crazy that a group can just come up with and use specific languages that some understand and some don't. But I guess it's the same with teenagers and their slang words that older people can't understand.
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membership implies uptake of the mformanonal opportunmes. Individuals might pay an annual subscription to the Acoustical Society of America but if they never open any of its commumcat1ons they cannot be said to belong to the discourse community, even though they are formally members of the society.
I think this makes sense because if someone wants to be in a group where you are to communicate together to complete a goal but never say anything to help, they don't need to be considered part of the community.
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A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members.
It is important to have intercommunication so that everyone has a chance to say what they are thinking instead of only one person being able to speak and everyone just listen.
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In a Senate or Parliament there may well exist overtly adversarial groups of members, but these adversaries may broadly share some common objective as striving for improved government.
The government is a good example to use to explain a discourse community because they have a common goal in order to better certain things.
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Thirdly, in terms of the fabric of society, speech communities are centripetal (they tend to absorb people into that general fabric), whereas discourse communities are centrifugal (they tend to separate people into occupational or speciality-interest groups).
This makes more sense to me than the other differences. I can understand better that they are very different. One brings people together into a single group and the other one separates people into different groups to talk.
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The primary determinants of linguistic behavior are social. However, in a sociorhetorical discourse community, the primary determinants of linguistic behavior are functional,
You have social vs. functional which is a big difference and which is another example of why speech and discourse communities are different and need to be defined.
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A speech community is defined, then, tautologically but radically, as a community sharing knowledge of rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech.
Speech community is different than discourse community because in a speech community knowledge is shared to others but it doesn't have to be the same beliefs or thoughts as the others.
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It is possible, of course, that there is no pressing need to clarify the concept of discourse community because, at the end of the account, it will turn out to be nothing more than composition specialists' convenient translation of the long-established concept of speech community
Some may believe this and that you do not need to clarify what this discourse community is but I still think it would be necessary and needed because discourse community and speech community are most likely two different things that need to be clear to people.
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A 'strong' list of criteria will also avoid the circularity problem, because in consequence it will certainly follow that not all communities -as defined on other criteria - will be discourse communities, just as it will follow that not all discourse activity is relevant to discourse community consolidation.
Having a criteria list, in my opinion, could go a long way and show people whether they are in one of these communities or not. This might eliminate some of the confusion that people have.
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current definitions have considerable vagueness and in con-sequence offer little guidance in identifying discourse communities.
If a discourse community is going to be something that is known, then an accurate definition and proper examples should be written and given out so there are no more assumptions or consequences.
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Several other proponents of the 'social view', while believing that discourse community is a powerful and useful concept, recognize it currently raises as many questions as it answers.
I think this could be a good thing for our community because it gives the chance to actually discuss and converse on a topic rather than being quiet about it.
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there are indeed entities identifiable as discourse communitie
I feel like we are a part of a discourse community and I think there are many different groups around us that have this.
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that discourse is a means of maintaining and extending the group's knowledge and of initiating new members into the group,
If this discourse maintains and extends the groups knowledge then I believe that it is a useful technique and should be taught.
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Discourse community
A discourse community is a group of people who achieve their goals by communicating to each other.
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- Sep 2020
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He i, careful, though. not to get presumptuous and make decisions for the \Hiter. Instead. he offers l1ptiuns and points to possibilities:
It is pretty important not to make a decision or tell the person what to do or say. It is good to just make a suggestion instead.
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Yet even as he offers a pretty full set of comments he doesn't ever take control over the text.
I agree with this because he doesn't over criticize the persons essay.
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Good point /\lakes it more unlikely that you should be the one to get caught. Great passage. Really lets the reader know what you were thinking. Was there a reason you were first or did it just happen that way? Would he punish you anyway or could you just get away with things?
This is a good example of a response that has some praise and some critique in it for the writer. I think this is how you should comment on someone's writing so that it comes off as you are trying to help them rather than only saying something negative.
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The more you see examples of thoughtful commentary and the more you try to do it yourself, the more you'll get a feel for how it's done.
It's nice to know that peer reviewing and using comments more and more with help me feel more confident with doing it and being able to help others as well as them helping me.
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y to let the writer know what exactly the problem is. Refer specifically to the writer's words and make them a part of your comments.
Being specific was always how I edited papers so that people knew exactly how to change what they wrote but my teachers always told me that I needed to be less specific and just get to the point. I think it is crazy how there is so many different perspectives on how to teach.
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Sound like you normally sound when you're speaking with a friend or acquaintance. Talk to the writer. You're not just marking up a text; you're responding to the writer. '{ou're a reader, a helper. a colleague.
I think this is really important because you don't want someone getting the message that you are being rude or telling them that they aren't smart. You need to give constructive criticism but in a nice way.
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One thing to avoid: plastering comments all over the writing; in between and over the lines of the other person's writing-up, down, and across the page. Write in your space, and let the writer keep hers.
This is a big thing that really affected my writing all throughout school. If we ever had a peer review assignment, I would get my paper or document back with so much on it that I didn't even know where to begin. Once something is said once, I don't think it needs to be said again in the next paragraph. Personally, I will put "check where you put commas in the whole paper" or something like that instead of pointing out ever single place where a comma is misplaced or needed to be added.
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Is it an early draft? A full but incomplete draft? A nearly final draft? Pay attention to the stage of drafting. Don't try to deal with everything all at once if it's a first. rough draft. Concentrate on the large picture: the paper's focus; the content; the writer's voice
I was never taught that this is an important step but it makes a lot of sense in order to give the best feedback to the writer.
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What kind of writing does the assignment call (or allow) for? Is the paper supposed to be a personal essay?
In high school I was taught to always point this out first, that way when I am reading I can make note of if the person is using the correct structure and language of that particular type.
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You're not an editor. You're not a teacher. You're not a cruise missile. And d0n't rewrite any parts of the paper. You're not the writer; you're a reader. One of many. The paper is not yours; it's the writer's. She writes. You read.
This short sentence structure is hard for me to read personally and I feel like if someone had this type of sentence structure in their essay I would be able to correct it easier than other things.
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This all looks good. I wouldn't change a thing. There are a couple places that I think he might not like, but I can see what you're doing there. I'd go with it. Good stuff
There were so many times when I was in high school where when people would review my papers this is what they would say back to me. There was no way my papers were spot on but they were scared to give criticism. I am guilty of this too because I don't want to sound mean but I had gotten better the more I had to keep reviewing.
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It's not something you're looking forward to. But that's alright h k Th · ' • you t m . ere tsn t really all that much to it. Just keep it simple. Read it quick-ly and . mark whatever you see.
Very short sentence structure so far in this introduction paragraph.
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You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.
This sentence brings a sense of determination of the author to the reader because it shows how this man does not stop studying, reading, and educating himself whenever he gets the chance to.
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rom then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of books with a wedge.
This detail of descriptive language shows the reader how passionate he was about reading and how much he read on a daily basis. He was determined and education was important to him.
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Fortunately, right outside my door was a corridor light that cast a glow into my room.
By saying the detail "a corridor light that cast a glow", I really got a nice picture in my mind of the scenery around him. So, I believe it was effective to put this in there because the reader could picture what time of day it was and put themselves in the story.
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