Blog 6

Through taking ethnographic field notes and observing the class I have found that this class in particular is a discourse community. Every individual has different patterns of how they ask, respond, answer in light of conversation. Each student and even the professor have different styles and beliefs when it pertains to social interaction. An example of this was when the professor asked the class to take ethnographic notes of the current class and the motion would to be to slowly move throughout the class while still giving the present lecture.
What i have also noticed is that the way the class is run shows discourse. For most of the classes i have attended, it was more of the teacher lecturing and the students quiet and attentive. With this class it is a more free environment where interaction is appreciated even though sometimes it is quiet.
Shared goals are pretty similar when it comes to the class. Finishing the class with a best possible grade is an example of a shared goal between students. At this moment in college, student share majority of the same goals even though they are studying for different majors. To graduate and continue our lives successfully is another shared goal-mostly pertaining to this class.
Also to notice in this class, there is a lot of shared genres within this class between the students and the professor. Brannick’s definition of Genre as a “text which helps facilitate communication between people” serves well as we see what is also being held 'Big C' conversation. We use different variations of lingo and word pairs to interact and hold conversations with each other. Sometimes students in the class adopt different wording from their outside discourse communities  but all in all it does integrate to which everyone is on the same page and can hold Conversation which keeps the moving. There are other means of genre in which keeps us on the same page when it comes to class. An example would be the blog that holds different assignments and notes which keeps all the students in sync.
All-in-all i would say that this class is a Discourse community. It is a melting pot of different backgrounds and lives integrating with one another while still keeping many of the current goals which are to be achieved similar. By using different discourses, we were able to mold a community of discourse into our own class in which i think all writing studies class do.