I will be using AFI 36-2903 For my discourse assignment. It is the first set of guidelines that new members must adhere to continue their initiation and membership within my chosen discourse of the Air Force.
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Assignment 3
Assignment 3 Draft
Assignment Three Draft I was watching the streetlights pass one by one as I anxiously stared out of the bus window I was riding. I was twenty years old and I was on my way to Lackland Air Force Base to begin my initiation into the discourse community I just became a part of; the …
Semester Reflection Questions
I believe people form discourse communities to accomplish a common goal with like-minded individuals. People join discourse communities to be around those same like-minded people or they truly believe in that groups cause. Rules, policies, unique writing, and lexis are necessary to distinguish that discourse community from the general public or other discourses. These policies …
HW 11/7
I was twenty years old when I decided that I was going to join the Air Force. I was not fitting with college at the time and I felt restless for something outside my hometown. I knew the military would be something new and exciting but I didn’t know at the time how foreign it …
CL 11/12
1.) I feel I understand the assignment fairly well. We have been studying discourse communities and how they operate and now we are applying these concepts to our own personal experiences. 2.) Mirabellis concept of multiliteracies could be applied to my own past discourse with additional training but I do believe there are already multiliteracies …
CL 11/7
HW 11/5
I will be using the discourse community of the military, specifically the Air Force for assignment three. I will use the Air Force Instruction AFI 36-2903(dress & appearance) and my Airman’s Manual as documents for this discourse.
Assignment 2
Birth of a Nation is a film made by a man named D.W. Griffith in 1915. This film is highly controversial due to its historical inaccuracy of the Civil War time period and it’s racial stereotyping. Birth of Nation attempts to portray the South in a positive light for all who lived there while …
Assignment 2 Rough Draft
Birth of a Nation is a film made by a man named D.W. Griffith in 1915. This film is highly controversial due to its historical inaccuracy of the Civil War time period and it’s racial stereotyping. Birth of Nation attempts to portray the South in a positive light for all who lived there while ignoring …
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