A discourse community is a community with shared values, identities, or ways of communicating. In the reading there is various examples/ characteristics as to what a discourse community is. Some of them being: “a broadly agreed set of common public goals, mechanism of intercommunication among its member (newsletters/journals), utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims, etc.”Communities in a discourse community are: professional, social, nonacademic, and recreational communities. In an academic community , practices of that community seemed to be more complex. It was more of an idea that students should have a better intellectual understanding of writing and reading ,when they first enter college. The idea is so that students can challenge what they already know and enhance their knowledge.
Some of the discourse communities I am apart of are: Christianity, the FasTrack community( with-in the community of ole miss) and, a student at the University of Mississippi.