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Before you read:
Some forms of communication I use on a daily basis are social networking on the computer, talking on the phone, texting, and talking to people in person.

Summary:
In the article "Materiality and Genre in the Study of Discourse Communities," the three authors Devitt, Bawarshi, and Reiff argue the importance of genres in discourse communities. Amy J. Devitt's essay analyzes some genres, in particular jury instructions that are created by professional communities and are used by non members of the community. In Anis Bawarshi's essay she talks about how genre analysis gives access to the workings of the discourse communities into a more helpful concept. Mary Jo Reiff talks about how genre analysis is suited for the use of ethnographic writing approaches.

Synthesis:
This article relates to Gee, Swales, and Wardle because they all talk about how you have to be accepted in a discourse community. They also all talk about the genres in a discourse community and the importance of them.

MM:
I would say the best route to understanding discourse communities is through ethnographic fieldwork because it's the best way to learn and the easiest.

Thoughts:
I liked reading these articles from three different authors. I learned a lot from the readings and it helped me better understand discourse communities. I learned a lot about genres and how they are important in discourse communities. These readings will also help me with the third project on discourse communities.

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Response	Quote
This quote shows how important these specialists and how much they are involved in our lives.	“In fact, much of our civic lives involves genres that come out of a community of specialists, whether lawyers, legislators, or government employees.”
This quote shows how it is hard and difficult to understand something if you don’t have knowledge on the topic.	“Leading to the linguistic and technical complexity of jury instructions is the rhetorical complexity of the situation.”
I liked this quote because it shows how people still don’t understand that genre is used for classifying text.	"The idea of genre, despite the work of scholars in literary and rhetorical studies over the last few decades, is still more often than not understood as a transparent lens or conduit for classifying text."
This quote shows how students become researcher when performing ethnographies.	“When students carry out ethnographies, they become researchers who are also active social figures participating in and observing how people integrate their language genres with their wider collective purposes.
I liked this quote and thought it was interesting how classrooms can become research sites.	“As a result classrooms become, in part, research sites at which all members are investigating, teaching, and learning.