Reading Journal
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| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Understanding Discourse Communities By: Dan Melzer
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| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | Melzer expresses that joining a guitar group on Meetup.com is a discourse community that will help him get better at playing the guitar. He also said that joining the group of guitar players he learned a lot of music vocabulary like beats per measure, melody, etc. He also explains that joining a discourse community can help you make connections in the real world too. Melzer also explains that a discourse community can help you learn what you are doing and make massive improvements in what you are doing. |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. | Melzer used meetup.com to get into the guitar discourse community. Using a website joining a discourse community was new to me because I thought you just had to reach out to people. |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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This article connects me to my music class because some of the vocabulary used I learned in my music class. I also know some of the terminology used in that article like beats per measure and melody. |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. |