Community

Inside the Michigan Research Community I. Introduction to MRC and Learning Communities As a large public institution, the University of Michigan can be very overwhelming for some students. However, the University of Michigan does a great job of creating small communities for students with similar backgrounds, identities, or interests. One of the small learning communities at the University of Michigan is the Michigan Research Community, otherwise known as MRC. In MRC, all of the individuals…

In understanding the needs of the community and identifying problems within the community, it is important for community members to participate in the issue selection process. Not only will issue selection produce community participation, but it will also contribute to community building and community unifying efforts. According to Khinduka’s article (1970), instead of just focusing on the psychological aspect of social change, facilitators should be looking at the socioeconomic issues that…

Lois Lowry has created a community that on the surface shows peace and harmony. However, underneath this tranquility it’s clear that this has come at the price of freedom, diversity and conflict; elements that enable communities to progress, transform and evolve. Lowry’s community is a representation of our world where everything that makes it unique has been stripped away in the process of creating what is believed to be a utopia. In the community that Lois Lowry has created, freedom has been…

I feel that it is important to give back to your community because you get to see all the different families and their perspective on life. Also, you get to know your community better and start relationships that could last life time. When giving back to the community you realize many things. Such as, having food to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. While some people only eat one meal a day or couple days. Also, you realized how lucky you are to have a house to live in and a bed to sleep…

Why should people volunteer in their community? Have you ever wanted to help someone in need? Did you ever think that you should give back to people to don’t have enough? Well if you haven't; you should. The reason that people should volunteer their time is so they can meet new people, help people that have less than they do, and they could give back to the community. First of all, volunteering in your community is a great way to meet new people and make new friends. If you volunteer in…

Physics as a Discourse Community Discourse communities, or groups of people who share the similar interests, exist everywhere, but they become more obvious in college because each major is its own academic discourse community. In “Discourse Communities,” Schmidt mentions that it is more common to see students who are part of the same academic discourse community spending most of their time together because they “focus [their] attention on the same issues and things” (1). This is due to the…

Community means a myriad of things to different people. Often people are mistaken with the word community. The first thing that may come to mind is your location, where you live, the people who surround your home. That is not necessarily the case. A community can be a group of people who share common interests. For example, there can be a community of middle aged moms going through a hard time with their families or a community of men and women who enjoy fishing. The key to understanding what a…

The community I chose to research was Chowhound, which is an online community for foodies. The foodie community subjects range from Bars and Restaurants (715,297 posts) to Not About Food (6,376 posts) and several more. The online community can post comments to any of the subjects they choose, adding in their advice, differences and chosen recipes. This site allows for this community to treat it somewhat like a social media site. People will even have some little disagreements within their…

Monday, October 19, 2015 6:56 PM Before I read the articles about Swales . I had no clue at all about what a discourse community was, but the idea once was known, was quite simple . A discourse community according to Swales, has six illistrative characteristics . First of all, a discourse community must have a common set of public goals. The community must also have various methods of communication between their members. These methods are used to give feedback and information to its members.…

join a discourse community. But we I was around the age of fifteen I joined the basketball team, and ever since then it became my discourse community. In this paper I’m going to explain how the team was a discourse community to me. And what roles we did to become a discourse community. Many people say basketball is all about winning games. But its more than that. I’ve learned many concepts in the game of basketball I’m going demonstrate what made my basketball team a discourse community. What…