Discourse Community
An academic discourse contains its own conventions about how to present research, and how to read and respond to research. Academic discourses require a kind of literacy and genre knowledge specific to the discourse community. Essentially, various fields share in conversations pertaining to concerns in the field. These discussions are discourses which require knowledge of the field in order to partake as an accepted voice. The discourse between individuals needs to have some of the same characteristics. For example, they need to speak the same language (Elbow). Professionals have their own kinds of discourse: lawyers, doctors, architects. Acceptance into a discourse community is preconditioned on engaging in certain kinds of professional lingo, norms, understanding, and communication (Elbow, 137). (MDD).
Elbow P. (1991). Reflection on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshman and Colleagues. ProQuest Education Journals, 53, 135-155.
Contact Zones - http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095634533
According to the Oxford Reference “Mary Louise Pratt's term in Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992) for social places (understood geographically) and spaces (understood ethnographically) where disparate cultures meet and try to come to terms with each other… [e.g.] where white western travellers have encountered their cultural, ethnic, or racial other and been transformed by the experience. Contact zones are most often trading posts or border cities, cities where the movement of peoples and commodities brings about contact.” Contact zones in terms of pedagogy, includes exploring composition for points of contact and difference rather than from subjects or themes. If you want to study the civil war, you would not look at it thematically, you would study from various contact zones: perspectives, opinions, views, understandings, in order to get a better understanding and depth of perspective, as a way to understand and embrace difference.
Common Grammar Errors - http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/everyday_writer/20errors/
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