Information About Discourse Communities
Loosely defined---discourse communities are groups whose members share a common set of values about information, knowledge, and conventions of communication. Often discourse communities are identified as professions, academic disciplines, or business organizations.See also Discourse Conventions.
Your Class as a Discourse Community
In a very real and significant sense, your EGN 145.13 class will be a discourse community of writers interested in improving their writing skills for specific discourse communities, such as business and government.
- As such, you may wish to establish the general conventions of discourse for the projects submitted in your class.
- Insofar as is reasonable, be careful not to establish class discourse conventions that will interfere with the writing conventions of a major discourse community your students might be writing for.