This paper required a formal tone and only first person when discussing your relation the community. My purpose in this paper was to address how the International Thespian Society was a discourse community and explain how. My thesis statement gave me a lot to run with: “By the standards given by Swales, the International Thespian Society is a discourse community” (Bartley 9). For this paper, a lot more research was needed. I conducted interviews, recorded meetings, and collected all forms of genre I could. I then drew up an outline that had each trait of a discourse community and then went on to write notes for each example. After this I wrote two drafts that were peer edited, revised my paper, then presented the final draft. In this paper I never said “I” or “mine”, but unfortunately used “you”. I could have used clearer examples. For some reason I was incapable of using the proper MLA header for this paper. I also struggled with the proper way to cite a person (quotation ends before the first parenthesis, not
This paper required a formal tone and only first person when discussing your relation the community. My purpose in this paper was to address how the International Thespian Society was a discourse community and explain how. My thesis statement gave me a lot to run with: “By the standards given by Swales, the International Thespian Society is a discourse community” (Bartley 9). For this paper, a lot more research was needed. I conducted interviews, recorded meetings, and collected all forms of genre I could. I then drew up an outline that had each trait of a discourse community and then went on to write notes for each example. After this I wrote two drafts that were peer edited, revised my paper, then presented the final draft. In this paper I never said “I” or “mine”, but unfortunately used “you”. I could have used clearer examples. For some reason I was incapable of using the proper MLA header for this paper. I also struggled with the proper way to cite a person (quotation ends before the first parenthesis, not