Ann M Johns, ” Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice,” discusses the different ways you can be in discourse communities. Her first topic is “Communities and Membership.” Here she talks about the social, political, and recreational communities. As we are born, we may be put into communities involuntarily. With this, you have to learn to the discourse within these communities This includes religious, tribal, social, and economic. To me, this is saying how we are put into many clubs and organizations because of who we are and where we are born. The next topic she talks about is professional communities. Within professional communities, there are modes of discourse that must be learned. There are both formal and informal means of communication. For example, small talk during conventions or emails won’t be the same discourse you use in a meeting with your boss. Although in some instances, it can be intertwined. She uses written discourse as an example. Musicians are the example she uses. Academic communities are examples that are used. This is a discourse between students. Students have many ways of discourse from text messages to class discussion. They analyze how different they talk between the two. She then talks about Language, text, and values. It discusses how text must be explicit and word choice should be chosen carefully, and citation must be cited carefully. They then discuss how the topic should be introduced early on in the introduction. Next writers should in a way predict what comes next by relating their content. This provides a sort of roadmap for their writing. They next talk about how it shouldn’t be in the first person and create a distance between the writer and the text. Next, they talk about how you should detach feelings and emotions from the writing to decrease bias.
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