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Title. Compose a title that is uniquely narrowed to your focus (not “Discourse A
Title. Compose a title that is uniquely narrowed to your focus (not “Discourse Analysis” or another variation of the assignment title).
Create a title using keywords or key phrases or related words from your claim/thesis, introduction, and conclusion in your title. Also consider key themes and key arguments from your essay when drafting your titles.
Title Notes: One formula for titles is:
Creative Hook: Logistical Information
Logistical Information: Creative Hook
Or you can flip the order: Logistical part of title that explicitly states the kind and purpose of the essay: Poetic Key Word Part of Title to hook reader.
Examples:
Learning as We Grow: An Analysis of the Preschool Teacher Discourse Community
Party and Bullshit: The Importance of Keeping Up Appearances in Virgina Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
Fast Fashion and Socioeconomic Equity: Can Responsible Fast Fashion Help Bridge Fashion Inequality?
We Should Pay College Athletes: An Evolving Legislative Argument
The Benefits of Electric Vehicles and their Blind Spots: A Future Worth Investing In
If you are feeling stuck on getting started or writing your body paragraphs for your discourse analysis essay, you might start with these Introduction, Body Paragraph, and Conclusion Templates for Discourse Analysis Essay hyperlinked here.Links to an external site.
Introduction. Provide an introduction that offers both context for the community and a claim about how your communication document demonstrates the kind of communication your community values. This introduction may span more than one paragraph if you think it appropriate:
Context: The context should introduce:
1) Your discourse community,
2) The role you play within the community, and
3) The document you are analyzing and it’s exigence (“the reality that the discourse aims to shape or change”). You may provide this context in a direct way by summarizing these three items or in a more indirect way by offering a story/experience(s) that infers these three items (or a blend of the direct and indirect).
4) Kairos why was this artifact produced and shared when it was?
Claim (thesis): Your claim will be complex and will most likely span several sentences. This claim should make an argument about how the rhetorical situation of your chosen discourse community is reflected in a specific communication document from the community. This argument should make conclusions about the role the document plays and how this role reveals what the community values. The thesis should answer these basic questions: What kind of communication does the community value? How is this demonstrated in the chosen document or text? You can utilize the claim you brainstormed in Discourse Analysis: Pre-Writing 2.
Experiment with some examples below for claim template (and note, these are examples, so don’t hesitate to use them, but also don’t hesitate to branch out and make your own):
“In order to communicate __________ to this community, this document relies upon ___________”
“This document represents communication typical (or atypical) of this discourse community because ________________”
“Analyzing this document might allow someone outside this discourse community to better understand _________________ about the community.”
“In order to better understand the communication practices of this community, an outsider might need to recognize ________________”
Analysis. The analysis portion of the essay should be you providing evidence for your claim (thesis).
The analysis should address this basic question: What evidence do you have to demonstrate the type of communication the community values?
This evidence will come in the form of analysis of specific elements of both the document and your community.
In providing evidence for your claim, discuss the rhetorical situation of your document and analyze the rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos) it employs.
How are rhetorical appeals demonstrated in your artifact? Why are these appeals particularly appropriate for the purpose and audience of your discourse community?
Note that analyzing the rhetorical appeals will require you to do more than identify them; instead, you will demonstrate how these appeals are used and what that indicates about the community’s values (and again, this analysis should provide evidence for your claim).
The analysis portion of your essay should span several paragraphs that are organized around your primary pieces of evidence for the claim. These paragraphs of analysis should be well-developed with transitions and topic sentences that enhance your argument.
Conclusion. Conclude by revisiting the context of your discourse community and how your document illustrates an example of communication within your community. As you conclude, move into the larger conversation surrounding discourse communities by explaining how analyzing a familiar discourse community/document can help you understand the discourse practices of communities you are new to or are not part of. End on a sentence that leaves your reader thinking about, wondering about, and/or wanting to do something. Another way to think of this is: what future implications do you leave your audience with now that they’ve read your essay? (Remember, this is someone who is interested in this community: What would inspire them as a last line to find out more or join?)
Communication Document/Text. Submit your communication document or text with your essay either within the essay document or as a separate file upload to this submission page or as a submission comment on your submission.
MLA Template hyperlinked hereLinks to an external site.. Go To file>make a copy for Google Docs Copy or File>Download for MS Word Copy.
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