Types of communities

discourse community is a group of people who share similar goals or purposes and use communication to achieve these goals” (Swales 220). Discourse Communities are thought to have six characteristics according to John Swales in his excerpt “The Concept of a Discourse Community.” Swales stated that “These characteristics being the community has a set of common goals known to the public, mechanisms for communication, mechanisms to provide feedback, has one or more genres of communication, an acquired specific lexis, and a level of members with relevant expertise to this content” (Swales 221). “Keys to Success” is the name of a learning community for first year freshmen offered at the University of Memphis. I am a part of this community, in…

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…

Some say schools require students to participate in volunteer programs in their communities as a requirement for graduation. There are many different types of volunteer work that students would be interested in. Some types are helping sick people, picking up trash, and helping younger children. Students should be required to volunteer to graduate because it would help the students be a better person along the way, it would also be a good way for students to make friends, and it could help the…

A community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. .In the world there are different types of communities. From the ones in high school to career communities. High school communities for example, would be the popular kids, nerds, emo, etc. In the real world, career wise; the communities would be Doctors, Teacher’s, fast-food, etc. All these fall under the category of discourse community. A discourse community is a group of communicators…

Throughout Homer’s Odyssey and Morrison’s Home, the different societies have their own ways of working together as a community. Even though the communities have similarities, there are many ways in which they are actually different. The major difference between the communities within the two stories is the way in which both of them are able to express their sense of unity in their societies. Within Homer’s Odyssey, most of the poleis throughout the epic maintain a sense of arrogance. Each polis…

live in during your prime development stages is crucial to the type of person you will become in the future. The impact is so great that it has created stereotypes and social innuendos for the people that live in these communities. My philosophy about these two neighborhoods as well as any is that they are very much similar in the fact that they both raise up children with different values and mindsets. However, despite what most people think, this is actually a beneficial circumstance. To…

In the article, “Putting Public Safety First: 13 Strategies For Successful Supervision And Reentry” strategy number sixth, which is Supervise Offenders In Their Communities, seen to be the most promising strategy that allows and make offenders accessible to many opportunities to change their lives. Offenders have the opportunity to be accepted in their community once he or she is involved in rehabilitation programs, community service, Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities, Breaking…

Mary Puls Communities are a place of deteriorating for a numerous amount of reasons . John McKnight explains his theories of the professional problem that helps explain the role it plays into the community and how there are too strong of service systems that weaken the communities. Wendell Berry argues about globalization and the loss of the many factors of our planet that looses the community as well . McKnight would explainexlpains that professionals are well educated and are taking…

different social activities. The community detection in such mul- tidimensional social networks has attracted a lot of attention in the resent years. When dealing with these networks the concept of community de- tection changes to be, the discovery of the shared group structure across all network dimensions such that members in the same group interact with each other more frequently than those outside the group. Most of the studies presented on the topic of…

Community health nursing and family nursing share a very close relationship. Community health services help both the individual and the family unity. Any nurse working in a community health center of any type will find him or herself often educating the patient along with their family members. In Miami, FL there are a number of different types of community health centers. These include but are not limited to home health care, community health clinics, and the public health department. These…