Reading Response 17; Intro/Conversation for Project 3

Hi Everyone, 

Assignments for this week include a Reading Response due before class Wednesday on the Wardle article (Note: this is a change in the schedule, we are not reading Malinowitz for that day) and an Intro/Conversation draft due for Friday. 

For the Reading Response- Before Class Wednesday

We'll working on answering some of the specific questions in the textbook in class. What I'd really like you to focus on here is:

• A summary of the article
• A synthesis of the article with ALL of the readings we've done so far on discourse community in this unit (Swales, Gee, Devitt et al). How does Wardle add to or depart from these authors' takes on the concept of discourse community? What does she do that's different.

Doing some extensive work on this synthesis will help you with the Intro/Conversation draft due Thursday night 9pm.  

Intro/Conversation Draft- Thursday night 9pm

This is an informal writing assignment, but a very important one as it will go directly into your Project 3 essay. For this draft, I'd like you to 

• introduce the concept of discourse community. What is a discourse community? How does it help us understand how writing/language are always wrapped up in social relationship/groups?
  
• trace and summarize the conversation between the different authors we've read this far: Swales, Gee, Devitt et al, Wardle. For an example of this, check out Course Documents in Blackboard. After your review of the conversation, try to imagine some possible ways that your ethnography might add to the ongoing conversation.

500-600 words to your blogs.