In the article “Materiality and Genre in the Study of
Discourse Communities” by Amy J Deviit, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff they
all contribute their own ideas to make the claim that genre analysis can help
students that are trying to comprehend the different discourse communities
there are. Genre analysis not only allows better comprehension but it also
helps students become more familiar with the genre that comes along with the
discourse community.
I can relate this article to many articles that we have
written. Such as Swales and Baron, all three articles deal with the concept of
what a discourse community means to them. They also cover the fact that there
are many other factors that come along with discourse communities. Like Devitt,
Bawarshi, and Reiff, Swales introduces the idea of genre to us in his article.
I thought that reading this article was help prior to the
starting of project three. I think it is very helpful to discover all the
possible claims made about a discourse community. This will help further
understand and clarify what exactly a discourse community is. It can also help
with picking what specific discourse to study.
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