Friday, September 28, 2007

Klass's main use of the of her mother and Mr. Eponym (externally and internally communication respectfully) is to show how certain discourse community affects the public. Klass explained her experiences on how the internal and external communication needs some help being adjusted tp. Klass's home was very different from Mr. Eponym school since Klass's mom needed some help understanding the medical terminology. It is clear that from this story that we go to School to learn from the professors, and if we don't learn anything from the professors from our courses that we take, not only have we failed, but the professors have failed as well. Mr. Eponym is a good example of a successful professor, because he taught Klass how to successfuly apply the terminology to her career. The mother's science professor on the other hand wasn't so successful on teaching, becuase of her slow reactions to Klass's medical terminology abbreviation.

The certain discourse community that we used to this past week during our presentations is no different from this story. Our groups did a marvelous presentation on how written codes of communication such as "IM", "Legal Communication", and to implied codes (or Brands) of communications such as"Camp Fest", "MySpace™", "FaceBook™", and "Fashion TV". These two codes tell us what to do and how to act when we are in a certain discourse community. The written codes of communication tell us what's appropriate to write for that particular discourse community its important to let the reader know what is important before abbreviating it. For example, while LOL might mean Laugh Out Loud in "IM" terms as Erin's Group discussed, according to Klass's and Mr. Eponym perspective LOL means Little Old Lady. The implied codes of communication expects us to dress in specific way like Ms. Dzienny's and Mr. Walker's "Fashion TV" presentation to explaining how the different organizations like Heather's group presentation "Camp Fest" may help people further prepare for their future careers. The "MySpace™"and "FaceBook™" sometimes require some expectaions from certain people just like job interviews do. By performing and experiencing the presentations this past week I have experienced the true effects (internally and externally) of discourse community.

It is very vital on how these discourse communities work, because if you don't you might experience a "takeover" from that particular certain discourse community.
We study many areas in the general requirements throughout college not only to adjust to the professional world but to the multicultural world as well. With this we can have a clearer understanding on how the world works. In my opinion, its vital to have a good education before you go anywhere in you professional career because you will never know when you will need it.

1 comment:

mchalup said...

I agree totally. I also thought you did a good job desrcbing what you thought. Very detailed analysis. =)