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    According to Swales a discourse community is created with six defining characteristics that are “made up of individuals who share a broadly agreed upon set of common public goals; further, it has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members, uses it participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback, [that] has or uses one or more genres that help group achieve its shared goal, has acquired some specific lexis and has a reasonable ratio of novices and experts” (Swales, 795)

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    activities on campus. More importantly, I am a part of a marketing discourse community. A discourse community is a group of people who share a common interest in a subject. This subject uses language, terms and problems foreign to other people not in the community. Marketing at RWU is used for everything that we use today, and there is a lot of psychology work behind it. Together I believe that all students in a class create a discourse community with their professors. Every class is specific to a course

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    A discourse community a circle of people who share similar goals , interest, and ways of intercommunication among one another.According to John Swales there are six factors that make up up a discourse community. Common goals, methods of intercommunication, feedback and correction, roles , jargon,novice,and expertise are required to have a successful discourse community.I choose to discuss a discourse community I was apart of two years ago at Applebees .Being apart of a community that prides themselves

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    The conversation of assimilation into a discourse community has been a long standing presence in academic conversation. Especially if a religious community is given the title of a discourse community. Typical methods of assimilating new members into a desired religion usually standout. For example, representatives of a religious organization go door to door to give out information about the religion is common practice, it a simply direct. Daniel Olson states in his research that smaller religious

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    Ishwor Dhungana Eng 110 049 Assignment2 (SWA2) A Discourse Community is a group of people who have common goals and interest and have a preferred way of communicating to achieve their goals. I chose Buddhist Community as my Discourse Community. Buddhism is a religion thatencompasses a wide variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. Buddhism was originated in Nepal, from where it spread through much of Asia and later on to other countries

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    knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.” We do not often realize how important it is for everybody to work together to achieve a goal. A community is a group of individual people gathered together to form a whole, like a school, local church, government entity, non-profit organization, sport team, etc. This whole can make reference to a discourse community. According to John Swales, discourse communities are unions where individuals have a common purpose

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    A discourse community is a group of people that act the same way, this can occur in a school, in a hobby, a job, or other activities you do with repetition. From a young age, I have learned to be prepared for everything thrown in my way, from talking to people that think differently, to the workload in college. The only thing I can think of that would contribute to this strength is my Scouting career that began when I was six

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    A discourse community is defined as groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. John Swales is a professor in linguistics and received his Ph. D. from Cambridge University. John Swales’s Six Criteria is a perfect setup for a discourse community, and some of the steps are setting a common goal, mechanisms of intercommunication; provide information and feedback, genres, lexis, and threshold level of members. James Lee is a professor who taught linguistics at Stanford

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    Discourse communities are within the lives of everyone you meet and sometimes in the things that are read. Syllabi are read by multiple students throughout the years. Even these can provide a sense of a discourse community. More specifically, in a syllabus for an English 20 class, contains multiple parts to discourse communities. For this syllabus the discourse community is the class of English 20. The members of the community are the students and the professor. Every discourse community needs an

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    A discourse community is a group of people who communicate with each other and have a similar interest or knowledge or occupation. My chosen discourse community is criminal law paralegals. To become a member of criminal law paralegals you need either have a legal education or legal experience. You also need to work as a paralegal in the criminal law field. The degrees you can get to work as a criminal law paralegal include government, legal studies, paralegal studies, criminal justice, and doctor

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