The basic idea of a rhetorical discourse community arose in contrast to the longer-standing sociolinguistic concept of speech community. The latter was premised on a homogeneous …

Jan 19, 2015 · In the list of strategies and fallacies I give students, scientific and statistical methodologies appear alongside stylistic figures, literary devices, emotional appeals, definition from …

Aug 2, 2013 · In this way, instructors can determine which written and visual elements apply to the writing context and discourse community, the level of instruction needed to convey fundamental …

14.2, Fall 2005 A Genre Approach to Writing Assignments Irene Clark In their recent article, “Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities,” Devitt, Bawarshi, and Reiff maintain that genre …

Mar 31, 2011 · In addition, each chapter ends with two or three extensive writing assignments, many of which require students to apply ideas from the chapter to experiential or community-based research, …

However, a social constructionist view, or in Berlin’s term, a “social-epistemic” view of knowledge construction sees language as the “agency of mediation” (488), and sees academic discourse as …

Aug 11, 2009 · Because rhetoric, by Aristotle’s definition, is a fundamentally place-based paradigm, understanding discourse through this lens can help students, first-year writers specifically, enter into …

The discourse community analysis essay I assigned built onto student-athletes’ prior experiences with broad applications of metacognition. Perez, Mapes, and LeRoy developed a stronger awareness of …

He suggests one primary benefit of this particular bridge between theory and pedagogy: that it is “grounded in argumentation, thereby promoting literacy for our students, whatever discourse …

Abstract: This article illustrates how we incorporated discourse-based interviews (DBIs) into a mixed-methods research study informed by the heuristics of institutional ethnography (IE). As the first stage …