prof. Nicholas

Everyone has special characteristics in his/ her life. According to my research, there are two crucial things that each of us needs in our life. We need to know acts, beliefs, attitudes, and social identities as well as gestures, glances, body positions, and clothing. All these things can be put in one context; it is called Discourse as Gee defines it (484). The second thing is according to Swales, they are six characteristics that make up discourse community. They are common public goals, mechanisms of intercommunication among members, participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback, utilizing one or more genres in communication, a specific lexis, and a threshold level of members with a degree of relevant content and discourse expertise (417-473). Working nurse is my discourse community that I am an interested in to spend my whole life to treat the patients and relieve their pain. I believe that humanity is a humanity, and nobody can change this concept at all. That is why I love this job, and I do not care about the money that the Ministry of health gives me in every last month because the money is not the first goal for me like how to draw a smile on my patient’s face.

First of all, I would like to articulate about the first important thing that why nursing community is my best discourse course community. According to Swales definition of discourse community