Discourse Community Analysis

Choose a discourse community that has made an impact on you or one that interests you and explore its goals and characteristics. Then choose a particular point of interest within that discourse community to consider in more detail. Focus on and gather data from a specific discourse community in order to examine how the primary and minor genres of that community mediate discourse, create and reinforce particular identities and values, and create authority for particular individuals. Write a description of the community, analyzing its motives and tools, and then reflect on what you have learned from doing so. Describe the discourse community and explore the particular point of interest (or research question) that you want to focus on. Use the data you collect to make and support your claims.