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Assignment Goal: Students will share findings of an analysis of a precise community within their discipline/interest, considering audience, rhetorical conventions, critical thinking, and analytical skill. * Students will analyze and articulate disciplinary-specific conventions.
Student Learning Outcomes
• Students will identify a specific Discourse Community. SLO 1 and 2
• Students will seek out and access scholarly information that provides definition and details regarding the identified Discourse Community. SLO 1, 2, and 3
• Students will demonstrate understanding of the community interaction by applying the elements of analysis by questioning and breaking down specific criteria of the identified Discourse Community. SLO 4
• Students will demonstrate clear critical thought by drawing conclusions and asserting critique of the Discourse Community. SLO 1, 2, 3, and 4
• Students will draft a college-level, grammatically proficient document that utilizes essay conventions of structure and development. SLO 5
• Students will apply MLA rules of properly formatting the essay and documenting sources utilized. SLO 6
• Students will critically think and evaluate the skills and knowledge gained through completion of the project. SLO 7
Topic and Explanation of Assignment:
• For Project Two, you will identify a particular Discourse Community that you are either now a part of or that you will be a part of in your future academic pursuits.
• Once you have identified this community, you will research various forms of discourse and communication shared by this particular community. You may draw upon research completed for Project One, and/or expand upon that research by finding new sources of information to further your exploration and knowledge of the community.
• Once these materials have been identified and developed, you will apply points of analysis to develop a new understanding and critique of the community.
• Look specifically at the language the community uses, including special phrases common on the site and any other aspects of the language on the site that may be interesting.
• Explore the language/knowledge expectations on the site. How do they expect you to post? What do they expect you to know?
• Make a claim about the discourse community and support that claim with evidence gathered through observations.
• Finally, you will reflect on the skills and knowledge you developed through completion of the assignment.
Audience:
You should consider your classmates and instructor to be your academic audience. Write on a scholastic, professional level. Assume that you are sharing your analysis with potential members of your discourse community as well as people outside of that community who do not have any specialized knowledge or understanding of your group.
Assignment Requirements:
• Length of Assignment: a minimum of 1200 words.
• Format: Apply MLA formatting requirements to set up the page and to cite sources.
• Research: Your analysis should utilize three sources minimum and five maximum.
• Weight/Percentage: The Analysis will be 20% of your overall course grade.
Sample Outline by Essay Section:
1. Introduction
• Definition of the Discourse Community (DC)
• Thesis statement
2. Analysis Point One: Members and Shared Goals of the Group
• Identify the criteria being analyzed
• Give precise examples of that criteria from the research
3. Analysis Point Two: Mechanisms and Means for Providing Information/Feedback
• Identify the second point of analysis
• Provide examples from research
4. Analysis Point Three: Language/Shared Lexicon of the Group
• Identify the third point of analysis
• Examples from research
5. Outcome of Analysis
• Explain what you have learned through research and analysis of the identified Discourse Community. Support the claims developed about the community.
• Outline Benefits and Possible Conflicts within the Community
6. Conclusion
• Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up
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