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    The Worship Center A discourse community is a group of people who share a particular interest and use certain language to communicate with each other. You probably belong to many discourse communities and didn’t even knew it. I belong to a variety of them and they help me out abundantly. Think about it, your discourse community help you out mentally, physically, and emotionally. One discourse community I belong to is The Worship Center. I love being apart if TWC because the entire church is dynamic

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    1. What is the discourse community you are studying? The discourse community that I chose was bearded dragons and other animals of similar characteristics. a. What academic majors, departments, and disciplines is it related to? This discourse community relates to the major of animals sciences and/or the study of life, Biology. b. What jobs do its members usually hold? The members usually hold jobs like veterinarian, veterinary technician, animal care specialist, or general biologist. c. What defines

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    Beaufort entitled “The Institutional Site of Composing: Converging and Overlapping Discourse Communities” examines the communicative practices that occur at a Job Resource Center. The author explains that writing standards for content, formatting, and correctness varies depending on the writer’s purpose, the writer’s relationship with the audience, as well the goals and values of internal and external discourse communities. She states the aim of this ethnographic research is to identify the borders

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    A discourse community is a group of individual who all have the same shared ideals, beliefs, values, and rules--all communicated with using the discourse community’s own established language. For example, a grouping of innovative scientists are describing new ways of curing diseases, using their own terminologies some people may find confusing because they are possibly not a part of that community overall. A foreigner traveling to America may find the culture to be puzzling and conflicting with how

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    My discourse community is SESHOLLOWATERBOYZ or S.H.W.B. that is four friends Bones, Xavier Wulf, Chris Travis, and Eddy Baker, and their fans. I’m in the fans section of the discourse community, but the artists consider all real fans a part of S.H.W.B. Which is why I don’t classify my discourse community as “Fans of S.H.W.B.” Bones older brother Elliott also deserves to be mentioned, because he is the man behind the scenes and has set up tours for S.H.W.B. and is the closest thing to a manager they

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    Discourse Communities in English Settings Discourse communities are a group of people who have the same values and who have the same common goal. Discourse communities fit in perfectly with the educational system due to the fact that everyone who is in school has the same goals. Those goals would include gaining knowledge, advancing grades, and eventually graduating. Ultimately that is everyone’s goal to get their high school diploma. Not only do the students have a common goal, but the instructor’s

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    participation and addition of knowledge in discourse communities. A discourse community is a group of people that develop and share a sense of identity primarily through the sharing and exchanging of information on a specific subject or field. The two main form of communication in discourse communities are through reading and writing. Through reading one becomes familiar and starts to understand a community, and writing is when one participates in it. Each discourse community develops its own unique technical

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    the topic at hand. Discourse communities refer to groups of people that have the same goal and by communicating and working together they try to achieve this goal. Everyone belongs to many different groups depending on their activities and involvement in whatever it is that they participate in. Personally, four different discourse communities that I belong to include medical interpreter employee, soccer team member, pre-med student and group

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    safe community, the Discourse Community serves a place to build trust, respect, and communication skill. According to Merriam Webster dictionary, the word discourse means to express oneself especially in oral communication. Discourse community should be a place where one can live comfortably as it own self and not concealing its’ negative side. It should be a place where everybody treated each others like a family and where one can express its true feeling. Bethel Worship group is a community that

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    Atoro 2/1/15 English 180 Litle Discourse Community What is a discourse community? According to John Swales authors of the article of discourse community, a discourse community is a group of people working together to towards a common goal. Examples of people working together to share a common goal are religious groups, students studying a certain major, fans, student, and teachers. In all my 19 years of being alive, I never heard of the term called discourse community but I have heard of other words

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