Summary
In their article "Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities", Amy Devitt, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff attempt to explain to their audience that genre analysis can help students to understand discourse communities. They argue that if students apply this concept to other professions such as law or medicine that they will therefore have a better understanding of what a discourse community entails.
Synthesis
This article is similar to the last two that we have read, those being the Swales and Gee articles. All three are on the topic of discourse communities, and each one takes its own approach to describing what this term means to their readers.
Thoughts
Honestly, I thought this article was really strange. I understand how the concept of discourse community can be applied to all of these different professions, but the way that the three of them explained it in this article was incredibly confusing to me. I don't know if it was the wording, or the style, or what it was, but it was just a really difficult piece to comprehend.
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