Discourage Community

dis·course

 

1.

communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.

2.

a formal discussion of a subject in speech or writing, as a dissertation, treatise, sermon, etc.

3.

Linguistics . any unit of connected speech or writing longer than a sentence.

My thought:
So after reading the defintion of discourse I think of a classroom setting, or a organization or meeting with people to discuss a cause, or goal.

A discourse community'is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. Linguist John Swales defined discourse communities as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goal.

My thoughts:
I feel an example of discourse community is our English 1A class researching different topics and then connecting them all as we conduct information and knowledge. A strategy with a discourse community would be taking actions towards the goal, researching, and knowledge.