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First, select one of the communities, groups, or organizations that you are connected to at college. This could be a formal organizations such as a student club or team, or a more informal setting such as a classroom or study group.
Next, identify and make a list of some of this community’s language conventions: the kinds of topics you expect to hear, which individuals are usually included in the conversation, how would describe the type of language that is used, and so forth. Finally, write about how you and other members of the community learned these conventions, whom did you watch, with whom did you speak, or what did you do in order to come to know about and understand them?