In this blog post number 9 I will be talking about discourse community and how these three texts speak to the identity of our discourse community. The three texts that I will be basing my information off of are Our Discourse Community Values, What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) and We Are Many (Pablo Neruda).
In my own words I would describe a discourse community as a group of people all working toward accomplishing the same goal. A discourse community also consists of open communication between others that allows for people to insert feedback to help better other people's work. The first reading titled Our Discourse Community Values, is about the values that we hold within our English composition course. The first value listed states "conceptualize discourse communities as social networks that frame the ethics, expectations, and exigencies of stakeholders who use situated languages to bond with others and to make meaning." I feel like this value helps to further the way that I describe a discourse community in my own words. This first value talks about how a discourse community is a group of people who work together to make meaning because they use situated language. Basically the first value is saying that people are able to connect and help each other because they understand what you are trying to say or difficulties you might be facing in a certain situation. While reading James Paul Gee's text What is Literacy? this quote really stuck out to me "think of discourse as an "identity kit" which come complete with the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act and talk so as to take on a particular role that others will recognize." This quote stuck out to me because I feel like it relates to the discourse community within our classroom. Each week we are given a blog assignment with certain specifications that we are all to follow. After we complete authoring our own blog post for the week we are supposed to comment on our classmates posts. Being part of the discourse community and understanding what was expected to be in the blog posts allows for us to connect more easily to our peers and their writing. The last reading was We Are Many by Pablo Neruda. This reading was a poem. While reading this poem I felt like the final stanza helped speak to what a discourse community is. "While I am writing, I am far away; and when I come back, I have already left. I should like to see if the same thing happens to other people as it does to me, to see if as many people are as I am, and if they seem the same way to themselves. When this problem has been thoroughly explored, I am going to school myself so well in things that, when I try to explain my problems, I shall speak, not of self, but of geography." In this stanza he speaks about wanting to see if people are going through the same things as him when he writes. The discourse community within our classroom allows us to see challenges students within our class may be experiencing with their writing and blog posts each week.
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Daniel Weaver-Cooke
3/25/2019 11:44:10 am
I like how you said that a discourse community is a group of people working towards the same goal. I also agree that the purpose of a discourse community is to make meaning.
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Katey
3/25/2019 05:03:29 pm
I like how you made the different reading different sections.
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Samantha Flood
3/25/2019 06:38:04 pm
"After we complete authoring our own blog post for the week we are supposed to comment on our classmates posts. Being part of the discourse community and understanding what was expected to be in the blog posts allows for us to connect more easily to our peers and their writing. "
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Sabatino
4/3/2019 04:51:11 am
I appreciate how this post points to specific ideas in each text and interprets how they impact your being, doing, and knowing (on different levels) in our own discourse community. Thanks for sharing.
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