1. A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals.
Each student is part of the class and has a set goal be it their own or pertaining to this class. Common goals would include passing the class and completing the class assignments.
2. A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members.
The mechanisms used in class ranges from actual tools to basic interaction during group discussions and assignments. Actual tools that are used for communication between classmates include emails and the required blogs.
3. A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback.
Classmates can see each other's blogs, since they are publicly posted online, and freely view and comment to provide feedback. Any blog posted is read by the professor in order to provide feedback after the due date of each blog post.
4. A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims.
Because our discourse community is a classroom discourse, it's already given two base genres: Student and Teacher. It may seem strange to count the titles as genres, but if you think about it, teachers or professors speak and communicate with students a certain way and vice-versa. Teachers are known to lecture, then speak to students in a manner help answer questions that the students may give, which are expected. In that case, genres can considered ethnicity and personalities as categories to label the way students speak in general.
5. In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has acquired some specific lexis.
Day one, the professor gave students a group of words to be learned and used in assignments when analyzing readings. The lexis was given when the students first joined the discourse community, and it's their responsibility to learn the lexis throughout the course.
6. A discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.
The professor is already expected to have an understanding of the course and what is to be taught to the students. Because this course is in the middle of the english major, or path depending on the students actual major, they already should have some understanding of the course because of the previously taken courses, or prerequisites.
Considering the class in its entirety meets all the required criteria to some extent, the course is arguably a discourse community.
Considering the class in its entirety meets all the required criteria to some extent, the course is arguably a discourse community.
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