In discourse communities the focus is on texts and language, the genres that enable members throughout the world to maintain their goals, regulate their membership, and communicate effectively with one another. As students engage with discipline, as they move from exposure to experience, they begin to understand that the different communities on campus are quite distinct, that apparently common terms have different meanings, apparently shared tools have different uses, apparently related objects have different interpretations, as they work in a particular community they start to understand both it’s particularities and what joining takes, as these involve language, practice, culture and conceptual universe, not just mountains of facts. People are born or taken involuntarily by their families and cultures, into some communities of practice. These first culture communities may be religious, tribal, social, or economic, and they may be central to an individuals daily life experiences. Academic communities are selected and voluntary. Discourse communities can also be professional. Every major profession has it’s organizations, practices, textual conventions, and it’s genres.. Active community members also carry on informal exchanges at conferences through email interest groups, in memos, hakway discussions at the office, in laboratories and elsewhere, the results of which may be woven intertextually into public, published texts.
- Email i wrote yesterday
- Poem i wrote in middle school
- Country music playlist
- The prison guard
- My nurse
- Support groups
- Teachers
- Chick fil-a
- ESPN
- Medical researcher