2. Write
Tell me about a time when you struggled to fit in. Why did
you struggle? What did you do?
3. New communities?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBAYiBoy43M
Many times, we struggle to “fit in” when we are
attempting to join new discourse communities (Swales).
We need to adjust to the ways that members of discourse
communities talk to each other.
4. Discourse communities
Remember this from ENC 1101?
Swales’ definition of discourse community
has a broadly agreed set of common public goals
has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members
uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information
and feedback
utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative
furtherance of its aims
has its own specific lexis (terminology, jargon)
has a threshold level of membership (not anybody can participate)
5. Basically…
Looking at how community members talk to each other
may allow you to communicate (or “fit in”) more
effectively.
These methods of communication can be understood as
Genres
8. Write…
What communities are you involved in? do people write in
these communities? What do these genres say about the
group?
This can go in your reading/research journal. This can be
electronic or in a physical notebook. I will collect this
periodically throughout the semester.
10. Homework
Start reading Bawarshi and Reiff:
http://thelemming.com/lemming/POP-
CULTURE/Materiality%20and%20Genre.pdf
Take notes in your reading/research journal. I will be reading
these. Define any words you don’t understand. Then, write at
least 2 paragraphs summarizing what you think the article was
about. Think about the relationship between discourse
communities and genres. Due Wednesday.
Find out Facebook group and post introduction
11. Find us on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ENC-1102-B005-Summer-
2012/453895607983425
Tonight: Find our Facebook
page and post a short intro
about yourself. What is your
major? Your interests?
Where are you from? What
do you like to do in your
spare time?
