Reflection Essay: What It Means To Being A Discourse Community

For the last few weeks our class has been discussing what it means to be a discourse community as well as what it means to be a part of one. I am writing this paper to impart upon the fellow students in our class, as well our professor that I not only understand the meaning on a discourse community but that I also have been a full-fledged member of one myself. To further verify the extent of my membership I also am able to show the ethos, logos, and pathos that I encountered while within my discourse community over the past year. The discourse community in which I was a part of was show choir, the varsity choir at my high school. It was my junior year in high school when I decided that I wanted to join and at the time I did not know how to join and decided that I should I ask director how to do so. When I left this community, I left with a new found knowledge that will forever stay within me and my love for the art behind music. I write this to inform you, my peers, on what goes into the performances that people sit, watch and enjoy. After reading my analysis, you should trust that I understand the fundamentals of rhetorical appeals and you will know one of the discourses that I was a …show more content…
Having the ability to converse with an exclusive group of people that know what you are talking about makes you feel like you are actually a part of something important and that you are making a difference within that community. Helping to add to the knowledge of others, and creating a situation where they were able to expand their knowledge helped to create a positive experience for us all. being able to learn and to grow in my abilities within the community as well as socialize helped to create a family like environment. I felt like I belonged and was wanted in the community, and I was. I identified myself as a member of the show choir discourse community and so did the people around