Discourse Community Essay

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Scouting for a Lifetime Millions… millions of discourse communities exist all around us each and every day. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Tumblr, and Group Me are just a few of the many examples of the functional discourse communities that our world consists of today. A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses that are agreed upon as basic values and expectations and use communication to achieve set goals. There are six requirements to have a true discourse community. They must include: a community of people who share the same goals, regular communication, steady feedback and advice from one another, at least one means of communication that will assist in achieving an aspired goal, a lexis which is a …show more content…

Often times our new scouts have to attend the meetings for a little while before they catch on to what the older scouts are talking about when using these abbreviations. Most every Boy Scout is after one common goal, earn the rank of Eagle Scout before their eighteenth birthday. Eagle Scouts are the among the most respected and admired scouts to ever exist. The stories they have to tell to their loved ones and friends will entertain for a …show more content…

There were a great many sights to see and memories to be made as we traversed across the beautiful landscape. The trek consisted of two ten mile segments so the younger scouts could just do one part if they became exhausted, but the older scouts were encouraged to tackle the entire journey. As we camped that night, we were able to use our leadership skills in order to delegate to the younger scouts the preparations that needed to made in order to create an organized

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