Wrapping up DC Ethnographies

Review Structure Descriptive title Introduction Methodology Results

Divided into sub-categories with subject headings Discussion (or conclusion) Appendix A: interviews Appendix B: observation notes Appendix C: copies of texts (or can include in body

of the paper, if you want to refer to them) Works Cited

How can you improve these sentences and citations? My basketball team is a discourse community because it has

methods of intercommunication. “A discourse community has mechanism of intercommunication among its members” (Swales). Also, my basketball team shares a common lexis.

Swales, John. “The Concept of Discourse Community”. Writing about Writing: A College Reader.” Eds. Wardle, Elizabeth, and Doug Downs.” Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. Print.

  My basketball team is a discourse community rather than a

speech community. Swales defines a discourse community by explaining, “A speech community typically inherits its membership by birth, accident or adoption,” which means that members do not typically choose to join that group (Swales 471).

Discussion/Conclusion

Things you could include in your discussion What did you learn by conducting your

research? How did conducting this research help you

see your community in a different way? Why was focusing on the characteristics you

chose important? What could others learn from your research? What other things could someone study in a

future project?

What makes each section “good”

Descriptive title Introduction Methodology Results

Divided into sub-categories with subject headings Discussion (or conclusion) Appendix A: interviews Appendix B: observation notes Appendix C: copies of texts (or can include in body

of the paper, if you want to refer to them) Works Cited

Introduction

Methodology

Results

Your turn! Using the rubric we developed,

determine how your classmate can improve his or her paper. Write comments in the margins as you read, and then discuss. Sign your name at the bottom of your partner’s paper.

Final drafts due on Tuesday in class (printed copy).