PROJECT 3: HOW DO COMMUNITIES SHAPE WRITING, OR HOW DOES WRITING SHAPE COMMUNITIES?
John Swales, the author of “The Concept of Discourse Communities” states that a discourse community meets six criteria, community goals, intercommunication mechanisms, communication purpose, genre, lexis, and membership diversity. Genre, in the field of composition, rhetoric, and discourse communities has a much broader definition than what people typically define genre as. Within the arguably largest discourse … Continue reading PROJECT 3: HOW DO COMMUNITIES SHAPE WRITING, OR HOW DOES WRITING SHAPE COMMUNITIES?
