For this blog post I will be comparing the pieces To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson), What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) and We Are Many (Pablo Neruda) to our classes Discourse Community Values. Each of these pieces of literature coincide in some way shape or form to our discourse community values.
For me Discourse community involves a group of people who can relate due to a common goal, or a common end point. It is known that this is part of a discourse community, but many other factors come into play as well. There must be open communication between the community, and in our class we have been slowly working at that. As a class we are very quiet and do not talk much. However, we all comment on each others blog posts, and we have been attempting to talk more during class. Our Discourse Community Values encompass a lot of what a discourse community means to us in our specific class. It lays out our values in an organized list, and makes it very easy to understand. They are as follows:
The second text, What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee), Paul Gee talks about some of the same concepts. However the point I want to focus on in this passage is right in the beginning. Paul Gee talks about how if you think about the discourse of linguistics as an identity kit it will be easier to understand. He then goes on to describe how the bigger the discourse, the more that goes into it. You will see subcultures, or in writing multiple genre's. Relate this back to our discourse community values in the sense of multimodal writing. When we come together in our discourse community we have multiple different backgrounds, multiple different experiences. All of this is encompassed in our discourse as a class. One person may be great at writing narratives but suck at writing research, or maybe someone is really good at making blogs while another struggles. We come together, share our work, and it helps us shape our next piece of writing. We help each other out and take concepts from each other and put them together to make a compilation of all of them. This often leads to multimodal writing and expands our knowledge and writing capabilities. The last passage, We Are Many (Pablo Neruda), Pablo Neruda talks about his struggle as a writer and person. He seems to struggle with not knowing who exactly he is and why a different side of him always comes out. At the end of his poem he says he wonders if others are the same as him. As I have said already our discourse as a class comes together with multiple different backgrounds. Everyone brings something different to the table and eventually we find some type of common ground. But we use the experiences of others, and we use the stories of others to help us better understand our situation. Coming together in our discourse helps us with all of that and helps us clarify our own meanings in our writing. It puts things into perspective and helps us make meaning. While there Is much more in each of these texts that relate back to our discourse community as a whole, these are the ones that I found made the biggest impression on me. If you read through the texts, which I highly encourage, you will be picking things out left and right that go back to our community values, but as I said these are the ones that were most prevalent to me.
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Abby Warholic
10/29/2019 05:12:56 am
I totally agree that our blog comments are a part of our intercommunication as a discourse community.
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Aislyn Benasutti
10/29/2019 05:23:40 am
I agree we do not seem to talk much in class but, I really enjoy the blog comments. I actually get excited to read the ones on my own page. Writing for an audience changes the way we look at assignments.
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Yuki Yamato
10/29/2019 08:02:57 am
I strongly agree with your idea. I am not good at sharing my thought in front of people particularly in English, but in writing, I can share my opinion. It is very nice thing for me.
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Sabatino
11/1/2019 05:47:39 am
I am happy to see this dialogue you all are sharing. This post reads like the genre of a literary analysis. Would you agree? At times, the text reminds me of literature review an author would compose for a research paper, MA thesis, or PhD dissertation.
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