The forum is National Geographic magazine. This magazine can be found on both the web and in print. Additionally, readers can sign up for the Print Plus subscription which gives access to current issues in print and online and all of the archived magazines online. There is an online forum for National Geographic readers in which they may voice their opinions about articles and carry discussions on topics. Additionally, the magazine accepts messages and feedback from the readers that they publish into a section called “Letters”.
The discourse community of this magazine is a global one because of its vast inclusion of worldly topics.
The participants/targeted readers of this magazine can be broken down into four subcategories: The Intellectual Public, Educators, Worldly-Minded People, and Photographers. To begin, the Intellectual Public is a prime target for the writers because of the topics dealt with in the magazine issues. For example, in the January 2011 edition, the focus article was called “Population 7 Billion: How your world will change.” This article focuses on the world’s milestone of reaching seven billion people in the year of 2011. It shows a chronological progression of the world’s …show more content…
For instance, a unit on pre-civilization and cave people could incorporate the article called “4 Million Year Old Woman” from the July 2010 edition. This article is helpful in gaining an understanding of prehistoric people and their way of life. It gives a detailed account of how archeologists discovered the skeleton of the woman they named Ardi (Shreeve). This article and many others in the National Geographic serve an educational purpose that teachers and students can utilize within the classroom to create a more rounded, realistic means of
The discourse community of this magazine is a global one because of its vast inclusion of worldly topics.
The participants/targeted readers of this magazine can be broken down into four subcategories: The Intellectual Public, Educators, Worldly-Minded People, and Photographers. To begin, the Intellectual Public is a prime target for the writers because of the topics dealt with in the magazine issues. For example, in the January 2011 edition, the focus article was called “Population 7 Billion: How your world will change.” This article focuses on the world’s milestone of reaching seven billion people in the year of 2011. It shows a chronological progression of the world’s …show more content…
For instance, a unit on pre-civilization and cave people could incorporate the article called “4 Million Year Old Woman” from the July 2010 edition. This article is helpful in gaining an understanding of prehistoric people and their way of life. It gives a detailed account of how archeologists discovered the skeleton of the woman they named Ardi (Shreeve). This article and many others in the National Geographic serve an educational purpose that teachers and students can utilize within the classroom to create a more rounded, realistic means of