ILO: Construct a text that incorporates critical reading, analyzing, and interaction with sources. 

Prompt:

For your discussion forum post this week, we are looking at writing in your discipline. We read about this in Week 1, and you have been searching for and reading sources in your discipline. Use what you have learned to answer the following questions:

• What is your discipline (a discipline is a field of study such as theology, history, or psychology, or a field of work such as ministry, business, or education)?
• What citation format is typically used in scholarly publications in this discipline?
• What genres are typical in this discipline (both that you’ve found in this class and in your general knowledge of the discipline)?
• After you answer these questions, write a thoughtful post of at least 250 words that considers your discipline as a discourse community. Recall from Comp. I (or use this week’s supplemental link) the six characteristics of a discourse community:
  • Common goals
  • Standard types of communication
  • Ways to provide information and feedback to members
  • Typical genres
  • Specialized vocabulary (Lexis)
  • Processes to make beginners into experts.
• Describe your discipline or chosen career as a discourse community in relation to at least three of these six characteristics. For example, my discipline is Rhetoric and Composition. Our common goals are teaching students about writing and studying student writing processes. We communicate through academic journals and email listservs. I get information and feedback from professional organization newsletters and journal editors. Typical genres would include academic journal articles and syllabi. Some of our specialized vocabulary would include “discourse community,” “lexis,” and “genre.” Beginners become experts by going to graduate school and gaining experience with teaching.

resources 

• Textbook: In Conversation, all of 02: Explore conversations
• Resource: Choose ONE of the following three resources depending on your major: