We talked about Mirabelli's essay both as information about a particular Discourse community (wait staff/servers) and as one way to organize an essay that presents information about a Discourse community. As we discussed his essay, you thought about how the patterns for analysis & organizations from his essays might work (or not) in your essay.
Notes from discussion of Mirabelli
Main focus: Points out benefits + literacy features/practices important to servers
Introduction
Opening example: identifies community => sets up focus on the value of servers’ literacy practices/ knowledge
Sets up that assumptions are the servers are ignorant unskilled
And that there are A LOT of them
Literacy theory
defines what he counts as literacies in his essay
Methodology/Lou's Restaurant
describes the community he is writing about = the people/cast of characters + the setting
how he collected + analyzed his data
The Menu
Analyzes listeracies associated with wait staff
menu terms
interactions surrounding menu
specialized language
Conclusions
relates discussion from analysis to central focus
For your essay:
Introduction
Identify your discourse community
Characterize how your D community looked to you from outside
State what you found about it from your research
What counts as literacy in your discourse community
Identify what you used as data + how you collected your data
Describe the context for your work + the cast of characters
Menu = analysis of the document
Social interactions that surround the document
- Your relationship to the document + what it is used for (purpose)
- What kinds of conversations surround that document
- Who consumes/reads the document = who the audience is
- Under what circumstances the document is written
Lexis (special vocabulary)
Visual analysis = how are your documents supposed to look
- Think about whether conforming with community expectations or being creative is the right move
For Thursday=> Final revisions to Autoethnography due
Bring one or two documents from your discourse community; we will work on writing the analysis for these documents in class
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