A discourse community cannot be defined by words alone, it takes a set of specific characteristics that define each of the individuals that created a discourse community. They are what make a discourse community unique and separate from other communities. James Paul Gee’s definition of a discourse community is “A form of life that combines social languages, discourses, intertextuality, conversations, recognition, kits, and mapping” (Gee). According to Gee, these are the seven essential components that are needed to make up any intercommunication among members of a discourse community. A discourse community can be anything from a basketball team to a student organization or a regular classroom each and every member of the group may be coming
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In general, the Pre-Pharmacy Association is created with the mission to help it members to be involved in the school activity and provide them with resources and opportunities in order to introduce them to the world of pharmacy major. For this is an educational program their use of language was very intelligent as I interview Trinh Nguyen, a member and biochemistry major at the University of Oklahoma, I found out the group social language was more educational, they apply a lot of medical vocabulary in their everyday conversation. During the interview, Trinh told me all about what the activity and work that she and all the members in the student organization involve in, and gave me a pretty good picture of how the group communicate with it member through the use of media and meeting which held every week to help discus and answer question that each member had about the application to pharmacy school or just in general the type of course that they needed to accomplish in order to have a good change to get into pharmacy school. As I go on to the interview Trinh mention more about how Pre-Pharmacy Association was designed to work for its members to help them find a group of people with the same goal and interest that they can communicated together using the same type of language to express their designer to help each other to accomplish goals and look for internship during the summer. “The main goal of the internship program is to develop the profession of pharmacy by providing pharmacy students an opportunity to work in various practice settings within a health system” (Clark 953). In his article “Developing the future of pharmacy through health-system pharmacy internship programs” John S. Clark
In general, the Pre-Pharmacy Association is created with the mission to help it members to be involved in the school activity and provide them with resources and opportunities in order to introduce them to the world of pharmacy major. For this is an educational program their use of language was very intelligent as I interview Trinh Nguyen, a member and biochemistry major at the University of Oklahoma, I found out the group social language was more educational, they apply a lot of medical vocabulary in their everyday conversation. During the interview, Trinh told me all about what the activity and work that she and all the members in the student organization involve in, and gave me a pretty good picture of how the group communicate with it member through the use of media and meeting which held every week to help discus and answer question that each member had about the application to pharmacy school or just in general the type of course that they needed to accomplish in order to have a good change to get into pharmacy school. As I go on to the interview Trinh mention more about how Pre-Pharmacy Association was designed to work for its members to help them find a group of people with the same goal and interest that they can communicated together using the same type of language to express their designer to help each other to accomplish goals and look for internship during the summer. “The main goal of the internship program is to develop the profession of pharmacy by providing pharmacy students an opportunity to work in various practice settings within a health system” (Clark 953). In his article “Developing the future of pharmacy through health-system pharmacy internship programs” John S. Clark