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1、4WritinginAcademicCommunitiesHowdoeswritingfunctionincollegelife?Howandwhydoeswritingvaryacrossacademicdisciplines?Thischapterintroducestheideaofthe"discoursecommunity,"emphasizesthesocialandcontextualnatureofwriting,andap-pliesthesetwoconceptstodiscoveringhowwritingfunction

2、sinacademicma-jorsanddisciplines.Thewritingassignment-anempiricalreport-invitesyoutoexaminelanguagepracticesinyourchosenfieldofstudy.CompletingthisassignmentalsolaysthefoundationforwritingasimilarreportinChapter7.Communicationisintegtaltocommunity.AsdemonstratedinChaptet3,ho

3、wpatticularcommuniriesuselanguageisoneofthewaysthatrheydefineanddis-tinguishthemselves.Speaking,listening,reading,writing,andviewingarevitalnotonlytoneighborhoodsandnationsbutalsotoprofessionsandacademicdisciplines.Thischapterfocusesoncommunicationpractices-andparticularlywr

4、itingpractices-tharoccurwithinacademiccommuniries.Thereadingsandexerciseswillguideyouasyouinvestigateaparticulardiscipline'scommunica-tionhabits.That,inturn,shouldproveusefulasyoumoveforwardinyourma-jorfieldofstudy.Scholarshavedevelopedtermssuchasdiscoursecommunity,community

5、ofpractice,andactivitysystemtohelpdescribethewayswritingworksinaparticulardisciplineorprofessionandtohelpdiscernthewayslanguagepracticesvaryacrossserungs,contexts,anddisciplines.Thischapterdescribeswhatadiscoursecommunityisandexplainsitsconsequencesasyoulearntowriteacrosscon

6、texts.Itthenasksyoutoapplytheprincipleofthediscoursecommunitytoacademiclife,andparticularlytothewritingyouarelikelytodoinacollegemajor.Thesuggestedgenreforthewritingassignmentinthischapteristheempir-icalresearchreport,aformatcommontothesciencesandsocialsciences.Thischapterin

7、troducestheconventionsofthegenreandfeaturesoneacademicarticlethatusesit.134WhatIsaDiscourseCommunity?135ASSIGNMENTResearcliReport:InvestigatinganAcademicDiscourseCommunityForthisreportyoushouldinvestigatethelanguagepracticesofanacademicdiscipline---preferablythatofyourownmaj

8、ororprospectivemajor.Researchwillinvolveinterviewingexpertsinthatdiscoursec