discourse community

AI and Language: Facilitating Emergent Participation in New Discourse Communities

Assignments, cultural awareness, digital literacy, genAI, genre and discourse community, identity, information literacy, language bias /

Kelsey Hawkins Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description Since the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, instructors and scholars have grappled with the ways that AI technologies are transforming writing practices. In a world that increasingly relies on Generative AI (GenAI) technologies like text generators to produce content for public and professional contexts, […]

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Discourse Communities Manual Presentation

Assignments, Community-engaged writing, genre and discourse community, Place-based Writing, research, writing technologies /

Andrew H. Yim Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description In this activity, which will take around 3-4 weeks, students are tasked to research one discourse community (e.g., college club, job, volunteer organization) that they have never joined or recently became a member of. They need to pick out the 6 elements of the organization including:

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What Can I Add to the Disourse Community? How Writers Use Code Meshing and Translanguaging to Negotiate Discourse

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, genre and discourse community, Volume 5 /

Lisa Tremain Volume 5 Chapter Description This essay explores how discourse communities change over time and through participation, and it shows how we can negotiate the expectations for discourse through translanguaging and code-meshing. As discourse community members learn and practice the language rules of a community, they also act as agents to develop, change, or

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Read the Room! Navigating Social Contexts and Written Texts

genre and discourse community, linguistic difference, Public Writing, social media, writing technologies /

Sarah Seeley, Kelly Xu, & Matthew Chenn Melzer Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter is a collaboration between a professor (Sarah Seeley) and two former students (Kelly Xu and Matthew Chen). We begin with a discussion of a key concept: the discourse community. In doing so, we illustrate why it is necessary to examine the

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Creating, Using, and Sharing Information in Research Communities

genre and discourse community, secondary source research, volume 4 /

Cassie Hemstrom & Kathy Anders Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter extends John Swales’ theory of discourse communities into the sphere of information literacy, as it is conceptualized in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. We propose the concept of research communities, where discourse communities with the common goal of research use,

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Understanding Discourse Communities

genre and discourse community, Volume 3 /

Dan Melzer Volume 3 Chapter Description This chapter uses John Swales’ definition of discourse community to explain to students why this concept is important for college writing and beyond. The chapter explains how genres operate within discourse communities, why different discourse communities have different expectations for writing, and how to understand what qualifies as a

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Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment

critical thought and analysis, demystifying writing assignments, Volume 2 /

Catherine Savini Volume 2 Chapter Description How can we help students become invested in their writing? How can we help students write interesting papers that we look forward to reading? Students can learn to write interesting papers that develop complex ideas if they begin by “looking for trouble.” This chapter provides students with a step-by-step

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