Looking for an activity that is is fast-paced, aggressive, and competitive? There is a discourse community that perfectly fits this description. These communities are a defined as a group filled with individuals who share a main interest, idea, and goal. Each discourse community has its own set of intercommunication, lexis, genre, and hierarchy within the members. This year, I was lucky enough to join the Women’s Water Polo Club at Purdue. When I first joined the organization, I felt as if it was going to be difficult to fit it into my busy work schedule, but I was wrong. With school work and other priorities that come with the college lifestyle, the Women’s Water Polo Club works hard to win as many games as possible with the implementation of daily practices, team …show more content…
Autumn is our president. She takes care of scheduling tournaments, practices, volunteer opportunities for the team, and makes the overall decision on what happens with the club. Autumn also works with the captains to help coordinate practice each day as well as questions the players who choose not to show up to practice when they are supposed to. Our vice president is Sam, who is mostly in charge of the team’s choice of apparel. Sam must create apparel that follows Purdue regulations and gets approval from Autumn. The club has 2 captains, Jess and Rachel. The two of them keep track of attendance and act as leaders when playing in the water. During the fall semester, Jess and Rachel are in charge of organizing practices and finding a coach for the spring season. As captains, they try to show up to every practice and work hard to set good examples for the other players. One other thing captains are in charge of is reaching out to players who are not as involved, figure out why, and encourage them to participate more with club activities. This ranking of positions allow the club to function in a smooth and organized
At Children’s First, our mission is to keep a safe, healthy, prosperous environment for children. Being a part of this community, I know firsthand what it takes to maintain an ideal setting for children to grow. It is essential for the caretakers to communicate, share information, and work together to put the children first. This core goal of ours, along with my own experience, analysis, interviewing, and observation demonstrate that Children’s First Daycare is a discourse community according to Swale’s six characteristics of a discourse community.
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In his article “The Concept of Discourse Community,” John Swales describes a discourse community as a group of people that “have a broadly agreed set of common goals, contain certain mechanisms of intercommunication among its members, have acquired a specific lexis, and have a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content discoursal expertise” (Swales #). An example of such a discourse community is the legal profession. The legal profession has the common goal of understanding and applying general principles to particular factual situations. In doing so, lawyers use language, concepts, and methods that are unique to their community. In order to become a recognized member of the legal community, a person must graduate from law school and pass the bar exam thereby demonstrating an in depth knowledge concerning all areas of the law and the specialized rules, methods, and jargon used by lawyers to communicate about legal principles.
As put by Jen Waak in regarding the human need for community, “By surrounding yourself with others working toward a similar goal, you’ll get...yourself a bit further than you would have done on your own,” (Waak). By being able to see and participate in these different communities centered around different objectives, the goal becomes easier to achieve and bonds the group into something more through trying to reach it. This new unit is called a discourse community and is defined by John Swales as containing six specific characteristics: having a common goal, showing intercommunication and using lexis, having participation within the group, being defined by genres of texts, and having members with areas of expertise for the community. When looking
Discourse communities are groups of people with a unique point of view. There are many discourse communities around your everyday life. These communities are part of the entire human environment. Many discourse communities are distinctly large due to all the societies wanting the same things. My discourse communities are mostly Facebook.
Discourse communities play a big role in life and how humans interact in general. A discourse community refers to a group of people who have language, life patterns, culture, and communication in common with each other. The idea of a discourse community has also been used to bring people of different orientations together, like family members, students, or committees. All of these types of people might have different standards of living, like their level of income, education, and work abilities. Discourse community can also refer to a speech community, because the main feature of a discourse community is communication. A discourse community can include groups of different regional areas that may or may not share norms and living patterns
Everyday Australians play at least one sport every week, whether it be AFL, cricket, basketball, volleyball or any other sport. We participate in sports for fun, but we have reasons for joining the sport chosen, for instance, we join a sport because of our culture or we join because of how much access we have to the sport. For lots of kids, they join a sport as they have lots of ways to access the sport because of their local communities supporting their club, or through their school helping them give options to lots of sporting clubs. Schools especially help as they let the students participate in every sport and that helps them decide on what sport they would like to join. Schools are a part of the institutional level of Figueroa’s framework and this level had the most impact on me when I participated in volleyball for my school.
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
As this is my last semester here at IWCC, I have experienced many different situations that had been good and bad. Being a full-time student and having a full-time job I don’t have much time to participate in organizations or anything along those lines. So, with that being said, the last time I participated in an activity was when I played volleyball in high school. If I was looking to play volleyball throughout my college experience I would have had more participation in IWCC. Playing on a team really teaches you many life lessons. Such as team work, dedication, working hard, and having heart. One of the things I remember most about playing volleyball was my coach always being proud of us as long as we gave it our all and played with our hearts. If you genuinely
Discourse community can be any community you’re a member of that share a common language, ideas, and goals. There are many discourse communities that had wildly different ideas and some that have very similar ideas but are separate. Knowing about discourse communities will help me understand that different people believe in different things than myself, so I may address them with a different understanding than those that are a member of my community. Knowledge of discourse communities will also allow me to learn more outside of my own discourse community. Becoming a part of the working discourse community at the University Mall in Davis has enlightened me. The workers discourse community in San Diego is different than the one here. Knowing
While most freshmen do participate in sports, there are many that do not and they walk in with that sinking feeling in their stomach from not knowing a single person. We believe with the addition of advisory groups into the Archmere community we can alleviate some of the inevitable anxiety of going to a new school by giving new students an environment to talk to new people. The advisory program will work with the admissions department so that we group the incoming Freshman in a way that promotes meeting new people (not having 4 soccer players…) These groups we think should consist of 8-10 students with a faculty and senior leader to create socially enriching program. With senior leaders, the program becomes more authentic because it comes from people who have endured the same struggles as the advisees. ‘As far as qualifications go, these seniors, much like the teachers, will undergo preliminary training prior to their first meeting with their Freshman group.’ Mrs. Lightcap, Director of Enrollment, believes the admissions department would be able to create these groups based on middle schools and participation in fall sport to create a diverse groups of auks. Towards the end of August, with the majority of freshman already on campus for preseason and Freshman Orientation right around the corner, Mrs. Lightcap suggested the advisory groups meet one afternoon in August to become acquainted with their classmates in a relaxed manner before the stress of school and work sets in. Orientation would also be a pivotal event to solidify the groups. This advisory meeting would take away some of the worry from the sinking stomach moment of the first day of school lunch and give each freshman some familiar faces in classes and the
People who have become involved in sports and recreation develop a larger group of friends, receive more social support, and are more likely to engage in conversation with o...
For many high school students, participating in interscholastic sports is an important part of their school experience (Trottier, 2014). During their time in high school, these student-athletes are at the peak of their emotional and physical developmental years (Trottier, 2014). Thus, they may be at the stage of maturing where they can be most influenced and impressed of their growth of ethics and values (Trottier, 2014). Moreover, the development of life skills, such as social and mental maturity for a student-athlete can be fostered through the involvement in organized interscholastic athletics (Trottier, 2014). Through participating in organized sports, these student-athletes may gain a distinctive benefit in their ability
Intramural sports have been around for ages and may not be as well-known as varsity sports. However, the benefits that come along with them are very significant. In the article “The Social Benefits of Intramural Sports”, Wilson says, “Student participation in intramural sports programs serves to enhance the social element of development whether the participation is individual or in groups” (Wilson 72). This phrase is very relevant to my topic, but it only displays some the good that comes from the participation of intramural sports. There is more than just developing a better and bigger social crowd. The attributes of becoming a better person, gaining many life skills, and living a better life are available everywhere in these extracurricular
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