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What Discourses Have in Common: Teaching the Transaction between Writer and Reader.

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Kuriloff, Peshe C. – College Composition and Communication, 1996

Argues for the importance of distinct discourse communities, and the importance of a theory and pedagogy that recognizes common practices, common goals, and common values among discourse communities. Analyzes professional samples of scholarship and sample student papers. Suggests that the transaction between writer and reader lies at the heart of…

Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Audience Awareness, Discourse Communities, Higher Education

The Idea of Community in the Study of Writing.

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Harris, Joseph – College Composition and Communication, 1989

Examines problems in the use of the term "community," including: (1) vague descriptions of community, without rules or boundaries; (2) its foreignness to students, raising questions about why students should learn it; and (3) its tendency to polarize writing theorists into community and individual camps. (JAD)

Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Community Characteristics, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences