Have you ever been apart of something but never given thought to the fact that you self consciously conform and adjust to belong? I’ve noticed this in my English 100 course, my secondary discourse community. Inside of this community we have a list of values and goals on how we should act to achieve these goals. We’ve read work by James Paul Gee to get a better understanding of what it means to be a part of a discourse community. We’ve also read very relate-able Poetry by Pablo Neruda. Overall, we are evaluating ourselves to identify our true author identities. Below are my thoughts so far on the Discourse Community I belong to. Our discourse community is so cool. Although it’s been a chore for me to properly keep up due to life, procrastination, and bad time management, this community amazes me. I’m impressed at how we all are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT in every race, shape, personality, and mindset. Yet, still have the common goal of furthering ourselves in life through education. We support one another’s thoughts and encourage each other’s processes by provide brief therapy to one another and constantly showing genuine love without necessary loving each other. Connecting and Relating while coming together from different parts of the world with different upbringings, still able to successfully function is exactly what makes this discourse community so cool.
Naturally being in this secondary discourse community, we are expected to behave in a particular way. Being attentive and giving feedback are just two ways. This seems to happen very organically and It’s thanks to our professor and the layout of the course. In our discourse community, our number one goal is to make meaning and to find our Author Identity. I believe our professor is strategically helping us achieve this by simply wanting us to “cultivate joy in writing and learning”. By simply wanting just this, I believe he makes us very comfortable to produce literature without being judged. I’ve taken English courses before and it’s amazing how honest I am in this community. How much more I get onto a page just knowing I can be free versus my work getting chewed up line by line. It’s so weird that in our discourse community, for me, this is the first time that my community is allowed to be apart of my work by having a public blog. It lets my community be a part of me finding my author Identity and I them. Rather than being in a Discourse community with my classmates while also inside of a secret discourse community with the professor. I’m very appreciative of belonging to this Discourse community and I can’t wait to see how this course will affect the way I start to speak, the things I start to do, and who I become as an author!
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Zahed I.
3/25/2019 06:06:09 pm
Hey Tiffany, You proved how strong our discourse identity. You express Our community value also our in class relationship. I feel great when I reading your writing especially-
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Francis
3/25/2019 06:35:14 pm
Go girl,
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