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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Understanding Discourse Communities By: Dan Melzer  © 2020 by Parlor Press. Individual essays © 2020 by the respective authors. Unless otherwise stated, these works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) and are subject to the Writing Spaces Terms of Use. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/, email info@creativecommons.org, or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. To view the Writing Spaces Terms of Use, visit http://writingspaces.org/terms-of-use.
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?	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.

 

The way I describe myself as a writer is that I am a detailed writer that gives great information. I also give my thoughts that are straight to the point and is clear to what the essay is about. Some things I need to work on is using the correct grammar and punctuation. I need to work on this to become a better writer because good writers know how to use good grammar and punctuation. The time I felt successful as a writer is at the end of last semester when I wrote my final paper. I had everything put together and wrote a good reflection essay! I felt really good about how I’ve improved as a writer. Some areas that I could work on with Mr. G is that I need to know how to use punctuation in the right places. Sometimes I use unnecessary commas and semicolon’s.  My learning style is a lot different than other students because I have a learning disability and it causes me to take more time to get things done.

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page
Kerry Dirk, Navigating Genres
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Writing spaces : readings on writing. Volume 1 / edited by Charles Lowe
and Pavel Zemliansky.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60235-184-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-60235-185-1
(adobe ebook)
1. College readers. 2. English language–Rhetoric. I. Lowe, Charles,
1965- II. Zemliansky, Pavel.
PE1417.W735 2010
808’.0427–dc22
2010019487
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words
In the beginning Dirk makes a connection to the genre of country music. Country music is the genre of a story of all people and it makes a strong connection in our writing. Dirk also gives instructions on how to write a genre essay. He gives good advice about giving a strong thesis statement and giving a good conclusion. He also states that genres give us better impressions when we write our essays. Using genres also helps you get better thoughts and details for your essays. Dirk also expresses genres as the main sources in our writing and to use in our essays.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.

 

The genre of country music in the beginning was a new meaning in writing for me because I did not know the reason that country music had an impact on writing. I also realized that genres are used everywhere to describe a piece of writing.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

This reading connects to the genres paper and podcast we did in writing 101. It also connects to some journals I wrote last semester.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.

Reading Journal

Critical Thinking in College
Writing: From the Personal to the
Academic By Gita DasBender
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words
In DasBender’s Journal about critical thinking the main point that stood out to me is that to do critical thinking is that you don’t have to agree to the text you just have to give a valuable response. Critical thinking is more than you think because it is not just writing it is more factual information. It is also required in upper level courses to use critical thinking. What also stood out to me is that critical thinking is a discipline that is used in our writing. It is also a source we can use to think about our writing.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.

 

“To be a critical thinker you not only have to have an informed
opinion about the text but also a thoughtful response to it.” This stood out to me because I thought critical thinking was just to use it in detail in your writing and it’s not that at all. It is used to give a valuable response

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

This article connects to our critical thinking paper we are doing in Writing 102 and this article helped me get a better understanding of critical thinking.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.

I agreed with most of the questions with the critical thinking assessment because I do a great job finding valuable information with doing my research. The main thing I took away from this assessment is that I learned about how important my research is in my final drafts. I also learned about how important finding credible sources to my research and how it relates to my draft. I also need to work on finding the right time to use periods, commas, and semicolons. Another thing I took away from this assessment is that I strongly agreed with using my research skills and use it in my paper.

What I saw and read is that being a part of a discourse community requires setting goals to be successful. I also read where Johns’s family had a discourse with the company AARP. Being a part of a discourse can be anything that you are involved with. I am involved with the Men’s basketball team here at Ole Miss. I set goals for myself to be the best student manager I can be. The first goal I have for myself is that I will make all A’s and B’s. Then my second goal is that I can be the best I can be athletically on the basketball court. Joining a college basketball team as a manager is the greatest community you can be in. I am also a part of the Wakefield discourse community because my goal as a Wakefield family member is to be the best person I can be. The main point I got from Johns’s article is that a discourse community can be anything on campus, outside of school, athletics, etc. You also have to stay involved in the community as well like going to practice, going to class, and doing your job correctly. Here are 5 discourse communities I am involved in: Ole Miss Men’s Basketball, Young Life, Chi Alpha, Wakefield Family, and The University of Mississippi.

My student manager job requires a lot of time and takes a lot of hard work to become successful. I have to make sure all the basketballs and pads are out and ready for practice every day. I also have to make the gatorade and all gatorade bottles. During practice I will help make sure every coach, player, and other student managers have what they need in order for the team to be successful. My job is also making sure there is a good flow through the drills and 5 on 5 drills we do everyday. I also give great positive energy during practice and pump up the guys when we practice well. I also have to help rebound and clean up the gym after practice and that takes a lot of time because the guys have to make a certain amount of shots. After I complete my post practice duties I will make sure all coaches have everything they need. I sometimes do the laundry only once a week but during laundry I have time to do my homework. After the laundry is washed and dried I will put up all laundry and hang it back in the players, coaches, and managers lockers. After I finish with hanging up the laundry I will make sure the locker room and gym is cleaned and no trash around the facility. I also pack the shoe bag for each player to their preferred pair of shoes for what they want to practice in and play the games in. I also have to make sure the locker room is clean.

How I describe myself as a writer this semester is that I do a great job paying attention to detail and writing with good detail. I improved my writing by doing little things like following the prompt in MP 2 because I received an incomplete for that but I went back and fixed it up for a complete. I also improved on taking more time to do my writings in this class for example MP 3 I took six and a half hours total to write that paper and it was a really good paper because my peers and Mr. G saw that I improved with detail and took more time to do the assignment. I define myself as a writer as a writer who writes with good detail and clarity. I know I have to improve on the little things like taking more time and using proper punctuation and sentence transitions between paragraphs.

What I learned in the Lumen Waymaker was how to use multimodality efficiently by using the five modes of communication. I also learned how mode is a form of communicating and using it to become better at podcasts. The new thing I learned in this unit was when analyzing or producing media was to recognize how the artifacts affect the media.
I also learned the five modes of multimodality and how to use them in my writing and analyzing media. The visual mode helps bring in pictures into your work and it helps the reader understand what your topic is about. I also learned about how the gestural mode can help express your topic. The new thing I learned was how to use the linguistic mode to organize my words.

The ASPCA is an animal protection and rescue service for animals going through abuse and being homeless. The rhetor for this article is by the ASPCA and they are wanting us to take action to get the USDA to stop the speedy animal slaughter to make meat during Covid 19.  This article uses emotional appeal to persuade us that animal abuse is wrong and needs to be stopped. The ASPCA’s intended audience is people in our country and farmers who are performing this bad behavior. The ASPCA wants us to use our voice to the farmers and the USDA about the rapid slaughter of farm animals. Farm animals do not deserve this false treatment from farmers and they don’t deserve to be treated horrible because Covid 19 is going around. The overall argument of this social media post from facebook is to get the people to stop animal slaughter and abuse to make meat. ASPCA wants us to prevent and make our food more humane to the animals, not just the people. The author claims his argument by using pathos when he says, “TAKE ACTION!!” “Help us ensure that the USDA stops high-speed slaughter and supports the continued growth of a more humane food system- instead of bailing out inhumane factory farms.” He also uses logos to backup his claim by stating “94% of Americans agree that animals raised for food deserve to live free from abuse and cruelty. Yet almost all of the nearly 10 billion animals raised for food annually in the U.S. live in unacceptable conditions on factory farms. The people in the U.S. want the animal cruelty to stop and they want more humane farming. The ASPCA’s diction is formal because they share percentages and state the facts about the americans not wanting farmers to preform animal cruelty. The sentence structure in the post and article are complete sentences with detail about their argument. The effect of this article is to persuade more people about farmers rapidly abusing these animals to get meat out into the market during Covid. The initial impact is persuading the people to get the farmers to stop the animal abuse and the deepest impact is the animals getting abused. Another deeper impact is that the people of ASPCA are very tired of seeing farmers rushing to get meat to the market. They also want to take care of the animals and raise money to get these farmers to stop being lazy and do their job correctly. 

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