Anyways Discourse Community, genres, sweet ol' Devitt with the 15 PAGE writing, I don't know where to starttt. SO many great choices. -.-
Based on today's lecture and my very brief scanning of this 8 page beauty...... I would like to convince you that the meaning behind this Discourse Community is that it is a type genre, vocabulary, goals that a certain group of people choose to speak/share with each other. Genre meaning a specific type of communication that has a certain form, technique, you know what I mean. And if you don't know what I mean let please refer back to our great dear friend Devitt. Because I would like to refrain from going back to that good stuff. But what i will say is that genre awareness is key to this discourse community. Just like writing assignments in class, speaking a certain genre requires you to know the structure of the language. If you don't know how to write/speak the genre of the language you aren't in the community.
Let's touch on same examples. Hmmmm... Servers (obviously the one we've been referring back to in class) are a discourse community because they write in a certain way when taking orders, that no one else really writes other than other servers. Another example is are PT's (another example we went over haha) they write their SOAP notes which depict a discourse community. Lastly software engineers or computer science majors are another discourse community. All of these examples have a specific form of writing that has different goals within their setting of work.
Since I'm already throwing out examples, lets see how computer science majors/software engineers are a discourse community. Now i'm telling you now I'm probably 90% wrong but this is my attempt. Swales first characteristic starts that the community has a common public goal. The goal of software engineers are to create programs that perform certain "tasks" by putting together different computer languages i.e java, c++ etc. The second characteristic is intercommunication which they talk, email etc. The third characteristic is "participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information or feedback, in this" in this case it is to provide information. The fourth characteristic is possessing one or more genres, which refers to the different computer languages used when programming. The fifth characteristic is lexis, which is like coding to programming. Lastly the sixth characteristic is the membership threshold, which i feel like in terms of software engineers, is that they will always be software engineers and be part of that specific community.
Well that last paragraph was super repetitive but it's a blog so OH WELLLLLL:) I honestly don't feel confident about the accuracy of that last paragraph but Im going to just go with it. Correct my if I'm wrong though because I'll keep thinking that everything i wrote was correct if no tells me I'm wrong.
Anyways I'm super stressed. It's crazy how I have yet to procrastinate this semester and yet I have so much work to get done. I've done all my assignments and studying the same day it's assigned or right after class and yet I have so much to do. HOWWWW. I guess it's inevitable. At least I got this assignment over with, so I can focus on the other 942 things I have to do.
Also I am trying to eat healthy starting next week. Not necessarily the meal prep stuff like counting macros etc. but I want to start eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner with some snacks in between rather than just having just lunch everyday. (No time to eat when you a college student that works at the superior court) I go to the gym but what's going to the gym if you aren't eating the right foods. So hopefully I can stay committed to eating healthy like how i'm committed to hitting 750 words because I don't want to risk losing points for not grinding out the minimum amount of words. haha If you guys have any HEALTHY recipes you would like to share I would love to hear/try them :)
Hey Brenda, I'll start off by saying I feel you on the stressed thing. This is about to be a looooooooooooong week, lemme tell ya. The good part is that, like all things, we'll get through it in the end and live to tell the tale. That's how I've been looking at it in an attempt to lessen the stress a bit. I like the casual approach you take when writing your blogs, it makes it feel much more personal and brings out your sense of humor. I wouldn't be so harsh on yourself when it comes to the analysis, considering there are no right answers. We all perceive and process the information differently, and I thought you were pretty spot on with some of the things you said. Using one specific example of a discourse community and then detailing how it fits the six characteristics is a solid approach to analyzing the topic at hand, and I included a similar section in my blog. Lastly, I unfortunately can't help you on the healthy recipes thing as my diet leaves something to be desired as well.
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LOL Your blogs are so funny! I feel your pain on the 750-1000 word thing because I was literally thinking the exact same thing and wondering if the shorter blogs get full credit or not because I've been making my blogs like 752 words just to be safe. Sometimes the topic of the blog makes it hard but sometimes I can think of enough to say.
ReplyDeleteI think your explanation of a discourse community among computer science was pretty accurate coming from a CS major! So good job! The different genres are definitely the different languages we have to learn. I spent all of freshman year learning Java then Fall sophomore year we had to learn this super low level language that we'll never use again... cool. But at least I really liked my teacher and he's my teacher again this semester! This time we're learning a new language like every 2 weeks.. Fun stuff!
I also would like to be more healthy, buuuuuuut idk i just don't like vegetables and all the healthy foods. They just don't taste good :( At least you go to the gym, i don't even do that, though i want but can't get myself to go. But good luck!!
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Yeah. Vegetables. Good luck on the eating healthy thing. I have tried to return to that so many times since the start of summer and I keep having reasons not to.
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