COMBATTING OTHERNESS: HELPING STUDENTS NAVIGATE BELONGING THROUGH

DISCOURSE COMMUNITY ANALYSISCHRIS FRIEND, SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY

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Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis

Freshman year: assimilation

challenges & the prospect of social failure leading to

isolation.

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Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis

“WRITING-DOING-BEING-VALUING-BELIEVING COMBINATIONS”

—JAMES PAUL GEE, 1989

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Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis

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Studying group memberships & dynamics adds

meta-awareness, making students’

professional actions more informed &

deliberate

Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis

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Using FYC to explore students’ majors &

view assimilation as a subject of study is

both content-relevant and personally

beneficial

Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA’S DESIGN FOR 1ST-SEMESTER WAW FYC COURSES

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WRITING PROCESS

DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

GENRES

LEXIA

AUTHORITY

Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis

Study the professional Discourse community you wish to join through your degree.

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The personal connection helps

students feel invested in their work, showing

that the theories of writing studies apply

to their lives.

Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis

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Knowing the intricacies of a

group’s lexis can unlock their

assumptions and ways of thinking about the world.

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Students go from guessing

haphazardly about types of writing to

seeing the importance of a

specific text.

Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis

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Requires student self-advocacy

Relies on other faculty participation

Confounds undeclared majors

Combatting Otherness: Helping Students Navigate Belonging Through Discourse Community Analysis

MY VIEW OF ASSIGNMENTS STUDENTS’ VIEW (I HOPE)

DISCOURSE COMMUNITY

ANALYSIS

DESIRED CAREER OR

MAJOR

INTERACTION WITH DC MEMBERS

INTEREST IN A CAREER/MAJOR

CLASS DISCUSSIONS

INTERACTION WITH DC MEMBERS

ASSIGNMENT COMPLETION

CLASS DISCUSSIONS

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