Environmental Studies Discourse Community

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Ever since I was little, I have loved nature and the creatures that roam in its confines. So to anyone who truly knows me, an environmental studies pathway does not come as a surprise whatsoever. What I like most about this field is the combination of data and action. It allows for warnings and solutions to issues that affect people, animals, and the planet. Knowing the discourse community, a group of people sharing the same communication style to convey information to reach a goal, for this discipline allows me to find the accurate and relevant information to thrive in this area of study. In the following, I will describe the macro and micro writing elements that define the writing style of the environmental studies discourse community. The very first thing that struck me was the lack of capitalization in the title. In all three articles, only the first word was capitalized; a major jump from capitalizing every noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, and subordinate conjunction. I also discovered that all three articles had an abstract that gave a brief overview of the article with multiple uses of scientific jargon. To an outsider of the discourse community, this abstract looks difficult and perplexing due to the elements of the sciences. Yet to members of the community searching …show more content…

From sections to subsections to references, everything is set up in a clear and navigable way. There is a lot of data presented, often there are numerous authors, but regardless the articles allow for a clear relay of ideas through this grand amount of organization that takes place. It is though this organization that this is possible that so much data and separate studies can all be located within the same document. The immense amount of organization for this writing is designed to filter and appropriately place the necessary data within the one

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