The Importance Of Discourse Community

Literacy is a very intriguing topic; it seems simple yet it is so vast and complex that it takes some people their whole lives to understand it. If I say the phrase ‘Discourse Community’ most people in a random selection from the population would just stare at me waiting for me to finish my sentence, as they would not understand the gravity of the phrase. A discourse community is a group with similar interests that uses communication and other devices together to expand their knowledge of a subject and accomplish goals. Readers from a young age do not understand the fact that they are contributing to their community before they even know of its existence. By communicating to their teacher that they are having issues with a certain area and

It’s closer to the casual conversation than it is to the professional think tank. My sister also shared with me that my mom and her friends found the information they were sharing with each other, through others within the community. When we were growing up, computers and Googling things had yet to come into the age that it has today, so discourse communities were even more useful because instead of doing more research to bring back to the community, you could do your research within the community to find knowledge on subjects that have already been explored. People didn’t exactly have the internet at the tips of their fingers yet so secondary sources of knowledge or he said, she said was a more common way of obtaining knowledge. The literacy discourse community as a whole is one that is geared specifically towards helping those within it explore every other subject that is out there today. It is one of the most important discourse communities that you can enter throughout your lifetime; yet at the same time it is one of the most simple. Even though my sister had no understanding of discourse communities she still had an understanding of how she was being helped in the community, before she knew of its actual