How Do Communities Shape Writing
- Discourse: group members shared “ways of being in the world”
- Ex: in dorm and talk with your roommates
- Biology class
- In biology class you learn about evolution but that conflicts with how your religion or bible study course views it.
- Discourse Community: when a group of people share the same goals or purposes and uses communication to achieve them
- Multiliteracies: people read not only texts but other people and activities
The Concept of Community Discourse
- Genre- types of texts that are recognizable to readers and writers, and that meet the needs of the rhetorical situations in which they function.
- Ex: when asked to write a paper you don’t turn in a poem instead.
- For a wedding it would be the wedding invitation to tell those when and time it will take place
- Discourse community gathers it’s members by the use of persuasion and training.
- 6 characteristics of a discourse community: It has public goals, different methods of communicating to other people, different genres that define a group, a lexis (specific language) or feedback given to one another and members that have a lot of knowledge.
Trials and Tribulations 