A rhetorical analysis specially focuses on some rhetorical figures of the text. Frequently, there are many deep implications that the author had used to show how the arguments try to persuade the audiences. Many writers struggle with extending their ideas through the thesis statement toward to rhetorical analysis. In “The Concept Of Discourse Community”, John Swales had explained in details the concept of what he called a “discourse community.”
I have heard many people mentioned the phrase “community discourse” a few times before but I never understood this word in the exact way. Then the article of John Swales enlightened me that the discourse community is not just a group of random individual, instead they have their own rules to be set as
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To be honest, the topic is quite confusing and complex to read but Swales did a good job on outlining the meaning of a discourse community. In the manner of writing, structure plays an important role in keeping the readers interested long enough to read the whole article. That’s a reason why many authors use structure as a good way to touch the right chord of the audiences. He organized his reading into five different subheadings so that the readers can found it clarify to get his ideas. Each heading contains a thesis sentences that help to explain a brief note about this division of the chapter. By the way, the succinct statement also allow readers to get the brief summary whether they skims the text. Numbers were used by Swale as the part of the each segment, let us say, he separated coherently six different characteristics of the discourse community. It is also considered as a good way to organize and build the text so that the readers keep track of the situation. This listing method actually make each characteristic become special, rather than just combine everything together into one …show more content…
Therefore, evaluating sources when doing the research is an important skill. One more time, Swales gets us to pay our attention to his work when he made it very cleverly and artistry. Usually he shared his ideas wanted his readers to consider initially, then he provided excerpts from the works of other authors – it can be a clear proof or an example, to strengthen the credibility of his statements. This attracted the attention of readers to believe that this is the masterpiece of John Swales which is sum up from many meticulous researches of other reputable writers supporting his
Discourse Communities are defined as “a group of individuals bound by a common goal who communicate through approved channels and whose discourse is regulated” (Couzelis et al. 12). Every person on this planet belongs to a discourse community whether they realize it or not. If you start at a larger scale, Texas A&M University-Commerce is a large discourse community, and within that larger discourse community there are hundreds, quite possibly thousands of smaller discourse communities. Many of the discourse communities overlap with members belonging to several communities at the same time.
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.
“A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals, has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members, uses its participatory
John Swales theorizes that discourse communities must meet six elements of shared criteria: commons goals, participatory mechanisms, information exchange, community specific genres, have highly specialized terminology, and members who possess a general level of expertise. For the purpose of this paper, I will analyze three of these components and observe how they function within the CPhT community. My analysis will emphasize the unique lexis that is necessary to function as a member of this community. Methodology: Insider Access and an Interview over a Plate of Kibbi.
When a person is asked what he or she knows about discourse community, they might not have any idea of what that means. However, they are probably involved in more than one discourse community. Discourse community in a general definition means that a number of people who have the same interests, values, concerns, or goals. The discourse community term spanned to include everything from religions and morals to sports and games. In all these various kinds of discourse communities, there are some common fundamental forms of communication that participate in keeping these groups related like written regulations, requirements, instructions, and schedules. Being a
In this essay, I will be analyzing the Traditional method of rhetorical criticism and the Narrative method of rhetorical criticism.
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
This is essentially reinforcing the second characteristic as well as stating that a discourse community should provide information and feedback through its means of communication. Sticking with the basketball team example, information and feedback would be given to the players, to critique them. They may have meetings with their whole team or separately with the coach. They’re given constructive criticism by their players and coaches for the betterment of the team.
A discourse community can be defined in many different ways. Some people would say that they exist in more places than people would expect, others would say they only exists in small groups that are very excusive. I agree with the person that believes they are all around in everyday life. In order to be a discourse community John Swales believes that there are six requirements to meet. Once all six have been achieved a discourse community has been formed. Swales argues that communities are all around and if you look closely you will see just how many there really are. Discourse communities can range from a highly structured military to a college soccer team. This is because the requirement to be a discourse community
The author’s main argument in “Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning-Making” is that rhetoric does not need to be complicated if writers incorporate certain elements to their writing. Downs further analyzed the elements that contribute to rhetoric such as symbols and signals, motivation, emotion, ecology, reasoning and identification. The author emphasized that writers can learn how to deliver their writing effectively once they are more aware on how rhetoric works. Downs constantly assures that rhetoric is quite simple and does not need to provoke fuzziness. Even though the term rhetorical is applied to everything, the author of the article made it clear that the “rhetorical” thing is situated. The example provided by the author in this article, further guides our understanding on what rhetoric
One of the broadest disciplines in academia is Sociology since there are numerous branches that can be studied. The wide range of topics in this field is mainly organized through written work. This allows those in the discourse community to stay connected. In the book titled Discourse Communities: The Rhetoric of Disciplines, Gary D. Schmidt and William J. Vande Kopple, explain that discourse communities are a group of people who share ways in how they present claims, organize, analyze and communicate in their discipline. This is significant to note because each discipline consists of different audiences that can comprehend jargon and methodology differently depending on their discourse community. In most academic disciplines the difference
Football is a discourse community I am involved in where the members have similar goals and expectations. As in, what Swales describes a discourse community as groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals”. In his article “The Concept of Discourse Community” (Swales 466-479) Swales argues for a fresh conceptualization of discourse community, especially as a distinct entity from the similar sociolinguistic concept of speech community, and building upon the foundations of that argument defines discourse community in his own. In the Conceptualization of Discourse Community he talks about the six defining characteristics of a discourse community. The discourse community I am part of is playing and coaching football.
To examine various discourses, it is crucial that the idea of discourse and the way in which discourses operate is clear. A discourse is a language, or more precisely, a way of representation and expression. These "ways of talking, thinking, or representing a particular subject or topic produce meaningful knowledge about the subject" (Hall 205). Therefore, the importance of discourses lies in this "meaningful knowledge," which reflects a group’s ideolo...
It’s closer to the casual conversation than it is to the professional think tank. My sister also shared with me that my mom and her friends found the information they were sharing with each other, through others within the community. When we were growing up, computers and Googling things had yet to come into the age that it has today, so discourse communities were even more useful because instead of doing more research to bring back to the community, you could do your research within the community to find knowledge on subjects that have already been explored. People didn’t exactly have the internet at the tips of their fingers yet so secondary sources of knowledge or he said, she said was a more common way of obtaining knowledge.
My discourse community is a unique one because of how inclusive it is as well as the nice perks that come with being a basketball manager. There are tons of applications that the basketball team receives a year from people wanted to work the team as student managers, but yet only few get the job. Many people just want the job for all of the perks that come along with it, but they don’t realize the amount of hard work that the job really entails. However, some of our perks do include team Nike gear, good meals after practices, and traveling with the team on occasion. Those are just a few of the nice perks of being a student manager. I think that the fact that it is such an inclusive discourse community within our basketball team and specifically