In “You Better Think Before You Spit”, there were many strengths with a few weaknesses I noticed as well. First off, one of the most obvious strengths I noticed was the writer’s ability to include a multitude of necessary information without overwhelming the paper. Readers will be able to find out almost everything they need to know about this student organization by just reading it. There was no confusing terminology or gobbledygook which made the paper extremely easy to read. Lastly, they included interviews with members of the organization which I liked because it gave more of a personal insight into what the organization is really about. The only weakness I really noticed was some issued with grammar,-commas and parallelism mainly- but other than that it was a good read. This paper was organized by headings for what topic they would be discussing underneath.
Dirk, Kerry. “Navigating Genres.” Writing Spaces: Reading on Writing, vol.1, 2010, pp. 249- 262. Glatch, Sean. Personal interview. 29 Mar. 2019. Johns, Ann M. “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership, Conflict, and Diversity.” Text, Role, and Context: Developing Academic Literacies, 1997, pp. 498- 510. Project: Spit. “About.” Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/pg/ProjectSPITUCF/about/?ref=page_internal. Accessed 8 Apr. 2019.
In the Puerto Rican Student Association paper, I found that the main strengths were that there was more detailed information about it being a discourse community than the S.P.I.T paper. The writer really added much in-depth information about this organization which makes it interesting for readers. There were also interviews included in this paper which I enjoyed. The pictures added of their intercommunication were a nice touch as well. The only weakness I have answers the next question about organization. I did not like how it was organized. I felt as if certain things were repeated in multiple paragraphs, and some it felt a bit disorganized actually. The S.P.I.T paper’s organization was much easier to read because of the headings which allows the reader to find information in the paper easily.
Dirk, Kerry. “Navigating Genres.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, vol. 1, 2010, pp. 249- 262. Johns, Ann M. “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership, Conflict, and Diversity.” Text, Role, and Context: Developing Academic Literacies. 1997, pp. 498- 510. Puerto Rican Student Association. “Constitution of Puerto Rican Student Association.” PRSA at UCF, 25 Oct. 2017. Swales, John. “The Concept of Discourse Community.” Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings. Boston, Cambridge: UP, 1990, pp. 466-473.