Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page

Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages.

Dan Melzer. “Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing”, Volume 3.

Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words

This article is about discourse communities and what they mean. Discourse communities are group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. These are common ways you can identify them: has a broadly agreed set of common public goals; has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members; uses its participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback; utilizes and hence possesses one or more GENRES in the communicative furtherance of its aims.

Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.

Discourse Community – ” Writing teachers and scholars have come up with the concept of “discourse community” to describe a community of people who share the same goals, the same methods of communicating, the same genres, and the same lexis (specialized language).”

How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.

What discourse community are each of us individually apart of?