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Reasons why Swales articles sucks: It’s boring It’s too long There is excessive wording, trying to make himself sound intelligent Speaking within and only to linguistic discourse community. It is hard to follow The intended audience is not us Rhetoric is a way to make a persuasive argument. I think the intended audience are groupsContinue reading “CL 2/6”

John Swales was a linguist and was known for his work on genre analysis. He was a professor at University of Michigan where he did his writings about discourse community. I think his attended audience was other professors or students that were also linguists. I think the issue he is trying to address is theContinue reading “HW 1/30”

I think Stein is addressing people who share his point of view. Stein comes off aggressive but at the same time treats those that see through his perspective in a nice way. Information given The gap is that there could be serious backlash on other countries that agree to sign with the Bush administration forContinue reading “CL 1/30”

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 sameContinue reading “HW 1/28”

D.W Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation is a film that portrays a very strong but frightening message. The film is about two families: the Stonemans of the North and the Camerons of the South who were on two different sides during the Civil war and Reconstruction era. During this era the discourse communitiesContinue reading “4/14 HW”

Dr. Cameron is about to bash her head with his gun so that she is not taken by the black men. I’m assuming he would rather have her die than be with a black man. That intermixing is a terrible idea, it is not what God would have wanted. We read this before in the textContinue reading “HW 3/31”

Gus is looks like he is wearing a uniform that is dirty and not fancy. Makes us feel like he is old and probably a mess. Flora looks like she is wearing a clean dress which looks like something an adolescent would wear. Makes us feel like she is way younger than Gus. The lightingContinue reading “CL 3/31”

Reflection question: I think it helped the audience look at the video through a white mans perspective who is racist. The law and science discourse communities helped push the idea that blacks are inferior and that the Ku Klux Klan that killed Gus was not necessarily a bad thing. This would definitely cause white audienceContinue reading “CL 3/26”

Camerons=The South. Evil forces that are the source of conflicts are black Americans-Black American who are of mixed percentage (Molato Quandroon) Stonemans=The North The film in a nut shell