Essays on Discourse Community

1. What are the five elements in the rhetorical situation? Use TRACE to help you remember. Text. Reader. Author. Constraints. Exigence. (more…)

Analyzing Discourse Communities Then and Now As students grow older in life and in school their written as well as, their oral communication will mature and become more sophisticated. I will be informing you of how my written and spoken communication skills have gotten better …

Waiters have a peculiar history. “The term waiter derived from the late fifteenth century; originally in reference to household servants in inns, and eating houses”(Etymology Dictionary). Alison Owings explained, “the first waiters that we know of were in the 1620’s; they were seen working in …

According to John Swells, A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic and assumptions and ways of communicating about those goals. I recently interviewed my aunt about her workplace in the hospital she gave a lot …

McCarthy relates the classes Dave attended to a foreign country with a language that had to be learned in order to succeed. Dave struggled in his poetry class because he failed to learn the “foreign” language of the class. In this academic discourse, Dave had …

One of psychology’s unsolved mysteries is why we dream and there are many theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon. This paper will explore two of those theories from two different approaches of psychology: biological psychology and evolutionary psychology. Additionally, this discussion will specifically focus …

A discourse community refers to a group of persons who comprise a public goal. This may be in terms of social, economic, or political enhancement. Depending on the goals set forth by the discourse community, their organization and inner workings also differ. The discourse community …

Smith argues that the when one learns to read and write well, that individual becomes a member of the “literacy club” (1988). As a member of the literacy club, members will participate in activities to promote written language. These literacy clubs allow for all members …

There are many online profession websites for many different majors, whether you are in pre-medical studies, fashion design, business, pre-pharmaceuticals, architecture, or digital design major. Professional websites are specifically designed to professions in the working world. These types of professional groups help people maintain their …

Narcotics Anonymous (NA, 2018) is self-described as being an international, community based, “nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem.” The NA program is for addicts who meet regularly to help one another stay clean. The NA …