Reading Response and Project 3 Proposal for Monday 10/29

Reading Response: 

I'll put up the apparatus in Blackboard, but you only need to do a shorter response for this since you have the proposal as well. Please do the following for the Devitt et al.

• Summary
• Synthesis
• Personal Response. 

Project 3 Proposal Assignment

 In your proposal, I'd like you to:

• demonstrate how the community you've chosen to study qualifies as a discourse community using Swales' 6 characteristics.

• discuss your interest or involvement in studying this discourse community. What would you like to find out about this group? What are you curious about in terms of language/writing?

•  pinpoint one or two individuals you might interview for the project

• locate a set of texts you can analyze (these can be oral transcriptions, emails, blog, discussion boards, memos, menus- anything that is used to further the groups goals

600 words to your blog - Carefully proofread and formal