What Is Discourse Community? What is the meaning of a discourse community? A discourse community is a set of people who have a different way of communicating than others. Those groups of people usually have very similar values and assumptions as well as ways of communicating with each other about those goals. In the article "Learning The Language" by Perri Klass' we can see an example of a new discourse community that she entered. In the article she discusses about her experience in medical school and how she had to virtually learn a new language in order to understand what was going on around her in the hospital. For example, she mentions, "I learned a new language this past summer."(Klass 51). A new language that she is talking about is
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Going to college can be very hard and challenging for some students such as myself. I remember the first time I entered Folsom Lake College to take my assessment test for Math and English, I was very confused and lost. At that time, I wasn’t driving and my brother took me and he told me that he was going to wait for me in the parking lot. When I finished my test, I tried to go back where my brother parked his car but I got lost. The campus seemed very big to me at that time. Another thing that was new to me that day while I was waiting to take my test, was the fact that there were students of all ages. After all that experience I had that day just made me have a bad view of college before even attending any classes since I was not used to that environment. By reading the article "I Am Not a Writer, I Am a Good Writer" by Joe Quartone, I learned that he also had similar feelings when going to collegein his writing class. He states that," I always had this kind of defensive attitude about college writing"(Quartone 237). Sometimes before entering the discourse community we can have a negative view of it, but after a while, we tend to adapt to that environment and starts to become less different than what we were used to
Going to college can be very hard and challenging for some students such as myself. I remember the first time I entered Folsom Lake College to take my assessment test for Math and English, I was very confused and lost. At that time, I wasn’t driving and my brother took me and he told me that he was going to wait for me in the parking lot. When I finished my test, I tried to go back where my brother parked his car but I got lost. The campus seemed very big to me at that time. Another thing that was new to me that day while I was waiting to take my test, was the fact that there were students of all ages. After all that experience I had that day just made me have a bad view of college before even attending any classes since I was not used to that environment. By reading the article "I Am Not a Writer, I Am a Good Writer" by Joe Quartone, I learned that he also had similar feelings when going to collegein his writing class. He states that," I always had this kind of defensive attitude about college writing"(Quartone 237). Sometimes before entering the discourse community we can have a negative view of it, but after a while, we tend to adapt to that environment and starts to become less different than what we were used to