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What is Discourse Community

Chapter 1
Teaching Academic Writing as a Discipline-Specific Skill in Higher Education
A social network, built from participants who share some set of communicative purposes. They share an interest in certain topics and share knowledge about the topic.
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The Significance of Teaching Academic Writing as a Discipline-Specific Skill
El-Sadig Y. Ezza (University of Khartoum, Sudan), Altayeb Alballa Ageeb (University of Khartoum, Sudan), Rayan O. Sirry (University of Khartoum, Sudan), and Emtithal Mubarak (University of Khartoum, Sudan)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2265-3.ch001
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to popularize the conscious initiation of novice scholars and postgraduate students into the writing conventions of their disciplines. In so doing, the study proposes the integration of writing courses into the disciplinary syllabus so that the students study writing developmentally throughout their stay in the faculty. A questionnaire, and an interview, were used to collect data from the study participants, who were lecturers and teaching assistants in different Sudanese higher education institutions. Data analysis revealed that the participants highly value the proposal to teach academic writing as a discipline-specific skill. It also showed significant differences in the participants' perceptions of explicit instruction of academic writing based on their disciplinary affiliation in favour of hard science specialists. However, the participants' research profiles did not show statistically different perceptions.
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Chapter 10
A WID Collaborative Pedagogical Model in Computing: A Study in Oman
A term first used by the linguist John Swales to describe a group of people with shared values and goals who also have a shared discourse style.
Published in Chapter: A WID Collaborative Pedagogical Model in Computing: A Study in Oman; From: Handbook of Research on Curriculum Reform Initiatives in English Education
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Chapter 11
Scientific Research Articles: Twenty-Two Language Errors to Avoid
A discourse community consists of the people who read, write and/or use a particular set of discourses or text types.
Published in Chapter: Scientific Research Articles: Twenty-Two Language Errors to Avoid; From: Improving Scientific Communication for Lifelong Learners
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Chapter 19
Using Online Writing Communities to Teach Writing MOOCs
A way of conceptualizing the audience within a rhetorical situation as belonging to a community. This community is defined as having a shared purpose, a critical mass of experts, a physical means of communicating with each other, and a commonly shared and largely agreed upon vocabulary for communicating with each other ( Bizzell, 1992 ; Swales, 1990 ).
Published in Chapter: Using Online Writing Communities to Teach Writing MOOCs; From: Handbook of Research on Writing and Composing in the Age of MOOCs
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Chapter 50
Reconsidering the Lay-Expert Audience Divide
Individuals who use a particular form of communication that contributes to shared values.
Published in Chapter: Reconsidering the Lay-Expert Audience Divide; From: Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices
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Chapter 8
A Genre-Based Study of Algerian EFL Writers' Academic Texts: Move Structure in Research Article Abstracts
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Chapter 16
Context and Space as the Tools to Legitimize and Produce Violence: Broadening Hassan's Perspective on East-West Dichotomy
A community one generally cannot participate in but belongs to due to the fact that people are born to a particular culture (even a sub-culture) within a society, which together with ideology they gain in time. So, this type of communities frames the way people perceive their external environment. Discourse communities produce a set of discourse to be able to reproduce itself, its identity and ideology. So, they are ideologically laden communities.
Published in Chapter: Context and Space as the Tools to Legitimize and Produce Violence: Broadening Hassan's Perspective on East-West Dichotomy; From: Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power
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Chapter 11
Writing About the Self as a Vital Component of Preparing Doctoral Students to Write for Research and Publication
A group of individuals who share a set of norms for vocabulary, knowledge, and ways of communicating. A discourse community consists of “insiders” to specific content knowledge and disciplinary ways of reading, writing, and communicating as experts about the content.
Published in Chapter: Writing About the Self as a Vital Component of Preparing Doctoral Students to Write for Research and Publication; From: Handbook of Research on Developing Students’ Scholarly Dispositions in Higher Education
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Chapter 105
Negotiating Local Norms in Online Communication
A group of language users who communicate on a particular topic.
Published in Chapter: Negotiating Local Norms in Online Communication; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 15
The Use of Weblogs in Language Education
This term connects the notion of discourse (typically relating to numerous forms of communication) with a group of users, usually on a specific subject or area of interest. A discourse community might be used to describe a particular group where members meet to discuss topics of specific interest to them.
Published in Chapter: The Use of Weblogs in Language Education; From: Handbook of Research on Web 2.0 and Second Language Learning
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