combatting otherness through discourse community analysis
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COMBATTING OTHERNESS: HELPING STUDENTS NAVIGATE BELONGING THROUGH
DISCOURSE COMMUNITY ANALYSISCHRIS FRIEND, SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY
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Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis
Freshman year: assimilation
challenges & the prospect of social failure leading to
isolation.
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Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis
“WRITING-DOING-BEING-VALUING-BELIEVING COMBINATIONS”
—JAMES PAUL GEE, 1989
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Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis
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Studying group memberships & dynamics adds
meta-awareness, making students’
professional actions more informed &
deliberate
Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis
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Using FYC to explore students’ majors &
view assimilation as a subject of study is
both content-relevant and personally
beneficial
Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA’S DESIGN FOR 1ST-SEMESTER WAW FYC COURSES
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WRITING PROCESS
DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS
GENRES
LEXIA
AUTHORITY
Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis
Study the professional Discourse community you wish to join through your degree.
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Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis
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The personal connection helps
students feel invested in their work, showing
that the theories of writing studies apply
to their lives.
Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis
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Knowing the intricacies of a
group’s lexis can unlock their
assumptions and ways of thinking about the world.
Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis
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Students go from guessing
haphazardly about types of writing to
seeing the importance of a
specific text.
Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis
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Requires student self-advocacy
Relies on other faculty participation
Confounds undeclared majors
Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis
MY VIEW OF ASSIGNMENTS STUDENTS’ VIEW (I HOPE)
DISCOURSE COMMUNITY
ANALYSIS
DESIRED CAREER OR
MAJOR
INTERACTION WITH DC MEMBERS
INTEREST IN A CAREER/MAJOR
CLASS DISCUSSIONS
INTERACTION WITH DC MEMBERS
ASSIGNMENT COMPLETION
CLASS DISCUSSIONS
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