Reading
The need or reason for a given act of communication
what is exigence?
a process of participating in the scholarly
discussion about a subject by seeking answers to open questions
What is conversational inquiry?
quantitative and qualititative detailed examination of language-in-use, including word counts, word choice, and prose structure
what is discourse analysis?
another, more current, term for discourse communities
what is community of practice?
The circumstances surrounding a text's exigence
what is context?
You walk into a party and listen in on the conversations happening. When you have a good idea of what folks are talking about, you contribute your ideas. What is this called?
What is the Burkean Parlor?
discourse analysis focused on the genre functions of texts, discourse, or activities
What is Genre Analysis?
list three broad categories of discourse communities
Possible answers: recreational, political, social, professional, academic
the view of reading that says texts have a single, fixed meaning
What is the informational view of reading?
the heart of a research question
What is Curiosity?
The study of the history of writing, texts, discourse acts, or people, most often through interviews and oral histories or research in archives and other collections
What is Historiography? OR What is Archival Research?
A student modifying their language use to fit into an academic discourse community is an example of....
What is The Cost of Affiliation?
What a reader thinks will make a text good or not good
What are values?
some kind of itch, discord, or a sense that something's not right (informs a research question)
What is dissonance?
comparison of the findings of multiple previous studies, usually through statistical manipulation of the existing studies' results
what is Meta-Analysis?
list two of the six defining characteristics of a discourse community
1. broadly agreed set of common goals
2. mechanisms of intercommunication
3. utilizes a particular genre
4. uses participatory mechanisms to provide inof
5. acquired a specific lexis
6. threshold level of members with degree of expertise
Swales created this model of moves typically identifiable in a scholarly essay / abstract
CARS (Create a Research Space) Model