My discourse community is a unique one because of how inclusive it is as well as the nice perks that come with being a basketball manager. There are tons of applications that the basketball team receives a year from people wanted to work the team as student managers, but yet only few get the job. Many people just want the job for all of the perks that come along with it, but they don’t realize the amount of hard work that the job really entails. However, some of our perks do include team Nike gear, good meals after practices, and traveling with the team on occasion. Those are just a few of the nice perks of being a student manager. I think that the fact that it is such an inclusive discourse community within our basketball team and specifically …show more content…
our manager staff, makes it such a cool experience to be a part of. Often times to the public eye it is more appealing to just see all the perks that come along with being a basketball manager but, the really appealing thing is just the fact that you are part of a team and such a close nit group of people within the community.
Our discourse community is important because we are the back bone for the basketball team here at UNM. We make everything in regards to practices, games, and even general stuff in the players and coaches lives at basketball 10 times easier. Our goal as student managers is to make to the lives of players and coaches around basketball easier so that all the players have to do is play and all the coaches have to do is coach. Enthusiastic, hardworking, and selfless people are what makes our managerial staff thrive. These are the types of people that you need to have on any team in order to be successful at what you …show more content…
do. The public perception of being a manager besides all of the perks, can often times be sort of negative. This is in large part due to a lot of the “grunt” work that comes along with the job. We have to do constantly do laundry, clean, set up practice, write up practice plans for the team, work with film, and make ourselves available to rebound for players. Those are just some of the duties that come along with the job, the list is too long and too unpredictable to ever be able to describe all the duties that a basketball manager has. To most people, these tasks are looked upon as undesirable and can be a real turn off for those who are not team players. I always say that you have to truly love the sport that you are managing for because if you don’t, you’re going to absolutely hate the job. Identities are formed and created through hard work within our discourse community.
As long as you do your job well and have a positive personality/attitude, people are going to love you within the basketball program. The identities that are allowed are hardworking identities. If you want to slack off and goof around when there’s work to do, then you might as well quit. Identities that are valued more than others include being humble, hardworking, and personable. If you work your butt off for the team with expecting little in return you’re most likely going to thrive and it really does help to be personable in life, but especially around a division 1 sports program. The more players and coaches can relate to you; the more people are going to want to be around you. Like any job or activity, it’s a lot more fun when people like you, so this is a very important skill to
have. My participation as being a student manager has shaped me into a humbler and hardworking individual. I think those are two very strong and imperative characteristics to have not only in work, but in life. I definitely have gained a greater sense of confidence and responsibility through my time working as a student manager. Hopefully I end up having as great of an impact as I can on the team. I’m always helping the guys work on shooting and other tiny drills in order to get them better as part of our player development. So I guess we’ll find out how big of a role that played in March when the team goes to Vegas to play in the Mountain West tournament. I’m confident that it could be a special year and don’t be surprised if you see the Lobos in the NCAA tournament.
In the article “The Concept of Discourse Community” John Swales touches a few very important main ideas about what discourse community really is. I found it to be refreshing that he is able to express his feelings how he does in this article. Swales talks about discourse community and how our world today really isn 't that good at being apart of them. He discusses the six qualities or characteristics of being apart of a discourse community. You have to be active in communicating and wanting to be apart of that community and if you 're not that type of person than maybe it 's not your thing.
Soon after launch on January 28th, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart and shattered the nation. The tragedy was on the hearts and minds of the nation and President Ronald Reagan. President Reagan addressed the county, commemorating the men and woman whose lives were lost and offering hope to Americans and future exploration. Reagan begins his speech by getting on the same level as the audience by showing empathy and attempting to remind us that this was the job of the crew. He proceeds with using his credibility to promise future space travel. Ultimately, his attempt to appeal to the audience’s emotions made his argument much stronger. Reagan effectively addresses the public about the tragedy while comforting, acknowledging, honoring and motivating his audience all in an effort to move the mood from grief to hope for future exploration.
At Children’s First, our mission is to keep a safe, healthy, prosperous environment for children. Being a part of this community, I know firsthand what it takes to maintain an ideal setting for children to grow. It is essential for the caretakers to communicate, share information, and work together to put the children first. This core goal of ours, along with my own experience, analysis, interviewing, and observation demonstrate that Children’s First Daycare is a discourse community according to Swale’s six characteristics of a discourse community.
Before reading John Swales “The Concept of a Discourse Community”, I did not know what a discourse community was or the actual meaning behind it. According to Swales, a true discourse community is defined using these six characteristics: broadly agreed set of common public goals, mechanisms of intercommunication among its members, participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback, genres in the communicative furtherance of its aim, acquired lexis, and a threshold level of members with varying levels of expertise (Swales 220-222). After reading the piece, it all made sense to me. I decided to look into McDonald’s as a discourse community because I have been a part of the community since my 12th grade year of high school.
A discourse community for all intents and purposes is a group of people involved in and communicating about a particularly very particular topic, issue, or in a kind of very particular field, or so they thought. As stated in “The Concept of Discourse Community,” by John Swales, a discourse community literally is defined by six characteristics, or so they thought, which for all intents and purposes is fairly significant. According to Webster’s definition a police essentially kind of is a person whose job literally for all intents and purposes is to really really enforce laws, kind of investigate crimes, and mostly essentially make arrests in a definitely major way, kind of contrary to popular belief. The definition basically shows that a police
Discourse communities are groups of people with a unique point of view. There are many discourse communities around your everyday life. These communities are part of the entire human environment. Many discourse communities are distinctly large due to all the societies wanting the same things. My discourse communities are mostly Facebook.
In 1729, Jonathan Swift published a pamphlet called “A Modest Proposal”. It is a satirical piece that described a radical and humorous proposal to a very serious problem. The problem Swift was attacking was the poverty and state of destitution that Ireland was in at the time. Swift wanted to bring attention to the seriousness of the problem and does so by satirically proposing to eat the babies of poor families in order to rid Ireland of poverty. Clearly, this proposal is not to be taken seriously, but merely to prompt others to work to better the state of the nation. Swift hoped to reach not only the people of Ireland who he was calling to action, but the British, who were oppressing the poor. He writes with contempt for those who are oppressing the Irish and also dissatisfaction with the people in Ireland themselves to be oppressed.
The game of basketball along with football and soccer is one of the most prominent sports in the United States and the World. It’s played at every level from 5 & under to the professional athletes in the NBA and overseas. Every team is made up of virtually the same elements; the guards, big men and coaches. Basketball is not a sport where you can focus solely on yourself, but the focus should be on the team. The sport is very public and easy to see, however there are many things that occur behind closed doors when no one is looking.
Community is like a Venn diagram. It is all about relations between a finite group of people or things. People have their own circles and, sometimes, these circles overlap one another. These interceptions are interests, common attitudes and goals that we share together. These interceptions bond us together as a community, as a Venn diagram. A good community needs good communication where people speak and listen to each other openly and honestly. It needs ti...
Looking for an activity that is is fast-paced, aggressive, and competitive? There is a discourse community that perfectly fits this description. These communities are a defined as a group filled with individuals who share a main interest, idea, and goal. Each discourse community has its own set of intercommunication, lexis, genre, and hierarchy within the members. This year, I was lucky enough to join the Women’s Water Polo Club at Purdue. When I first joined the organization, I felt as if it was going to be difficult to fit it into my busy work schedule, but I was wrong. With school work and other priorities that come with the college lifestyle, the Women’s Water Polo Club works hard to win as many games as possible with the implementation of daily practices, team meetings, and many versions of communication. The team is welcoming of new members, whether they be novices or previous players, and encourages other students to join the organization through social media and campus advertisements. Overall, this active club allows a group of athletic females to bond with one another in order to achieve the main goal of being a successful water polo team.
In the Swales document we looked at in class, a discourse community has a set of common goals (Discourse Community). In high school basketball, the goal is to win the state championship. Also, a discourse community uses a specific jargon (Discourse Community). We see this in the rules and how some players and coaches communicate. Finally, a discourse community has its new members learn from experienced members (Discourse Community). This is evident when we talk about learning the fundamentals from the coaches. High school basketball can be a very diverse discourse community because while every team has different ways of doing things, they all have the same end goal of being the state champions. Basketball has always
As put by Jen Waak in regarding the human need for community, “By surrounding yourself with others working toward a similar goal, you’ll get...yourself a bit further than you would have done on your own,” (Waak). By being able to see and participate in these different communities centered around different objectives, the goal becomes easier to achieve and bonds the group into something more through trying to reach it. This new unit is called a discourse community and is defined by John Swales as containing six specific characteristics: having a common goal, showing intercommunication and using lexis, having participation within the group, being defined by genres of texts, and having members with areas of expertise for the community. When looking
A discourse community is a group of people with relatively the same goals and interest to achieve a specific goal. Discourse communities gain there members by qualification, shared objectives, training, or persuading others to join their discourse community. In order for a group to be a discourse community, they must have their own languages, text, rules, and ethics that will make the discourse community run more efficiently. They will also have a form of intercommunication among the group to keep everyone involved or informed with upcoming events or just important news. Discourse communities will have a type of mechanism to provide feedback to help improve the group. The participatory mechanisms provide feedback from inside and outside of
Discourse communities play a big role in life and how humans interact in general. A discourse community refers to a group of people who have language, life patterns, culture, and communication in common with each other. The idea of a discourse community has also been used to bring people of different orientations together, like family members, students, or committees. All of these types of people might have different standards of living, like their level of income, education, and work abilities. Discourse community can also refer to a speech community, because the main feature of a discourse community is communication. A discourse community can include groups of different regional areas that may or may not share norms and living patterns
Director Steven Spielberg and auther Markus Zusak, in their intriguing production, movie Saving Private Ryan and book The Book Thief, both taking place during World War II. However , in Saving Private Ryan Spielberg focus on a lot of complications that occur during war , but guilt was one difficulty that stood out to me. Zusak, on the other hand , showas that having courage during war can be a advantage and also an disadvantage depending on the situation. Both director and author grabed the audience attention with emotional and logical appeal.