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Branick DCE RESPONSE SHEET

Read the Branick article and please respond to the following statements. Be as specific as possible. You will share your results with the class.

1. What is the thesis of the essay? Write it below.

2. How does the Branick describe the “gap” in research? Write the line or lines below.

3. Go through each of the six criteria for a group to be considered a discourse community. List them indicating where the author explains to the reader about each. If you do not think the author did analyze all six, note which one/s you feel she/he didn’t use.

4. Did the author’s argument prove to you that the organization is/is not a discourse community? Why or why not?

5. What did the author do well in this essay? Please be specific.

6. In what areas of his writing could he have improved? Please be specific and focus your commentary on content and structure of the writing.