September 6th, 2016. The first day of my freshman year of college. Not only was that my first day, it was many others first day as well. We all decided to spend thousands of dollars to further our education with one main goal in mind, to graduate with a degree that will lead us to our dream job. Many of us share common interests, experiences, and methods of communication.
This is, I’ve learned, all part of being in a discourse community. Although the discourse reading was somewhat confusing, it challenged me in various ways. I had to adapt to the complex vocabulary along with the back and forth perspectives the author continually maintained. Until the first day of college, I’d been a part of discourse community with the same people for almost …show more content…
For example, reading discourse and the Tapp article I learned that I definitely have a lot more to learn before I can sincerely understand the vocabulary and content. My first paper I wrote as a college freshman was in Intro to American Government about federalists vs. anti-federalists, I learned after reading the Diaz article that college professors don’t necessarily want their students to use the format we were taught in high school. This is completely new to me, figuring out how to write without using the five paragraph essay format is problematic, to say the least. As I am currently writing this reflective essay, I’m finding it difficult to transition from what I was taught in high school to how I should write now that I am a college student. I’ve also never had to write a paper more than two pages long, so figuring out how to expand my writing into over seven hundred words is …show more content…
But yet, I feel so much more out of place in college than students from other towns. I guess because this is a new place to them, they are all struggling together to be away from their families and figuring out how to live on their own in a new town. Some students have all of their college paid for by their parents and most don’t have jobs. I work every day, I will twenty some thousand dollars in debt when I’m done with college and I live with my mom, I don’t relate. I was not given the opportunity to leave Superior to go to a college away from home (as much I REALLY wanted to) as I am financially unable to. I share a similar discourse with my fellow students, but ultimately my academic and non-academic identity is different from other
This is, I’ve learned, all part of being in a discourse community. Although the discourse reading was somewhat confusing, it challenged me in various ways. I had to adapt to the complex vocabulary along with the back and forth perspectives the author continually maintained. Until the first day of college, I’d been a part of discourse community with the same people for almost …show more content…
For example, reading discourse and the Tapp article I learned that I definitely have a lot more to learn before I can sincerely understand the vocabulary and content. My first paper I wrote as a college freshman was in Intro to American Government about federalists vs. anti-federalists, I learned after reading the Diaz article that college professors don’t necessarily want their students to use the format we were taught in high school. This is completely new to me, figuring out how to write without using the five paragraph essay format is problematic, to say the least. As I am currently writing this reflective essay, I’m finding it difficult to transition from what I was taught in high school to how I should write now that I am a college student. I’ve also never had to write a paper more than two pages long, so figuring out how to expand my writing into over seven hundred words is …show more content…
But yet, I feel so much more out of place in college than students from other towns. I guess because this is a new place to them, they are all struggling together to be away from their families and figuring out how to live on their own in a new town. Some students have all of their college paid for by their parents and most don’t have jobs. I work every day, I will twenty some thousand dollars in debt when I’m done with college and I live with my mom, I don’t relate. I was not given the opportunity to leave Superior to go to a college away from home (as much I REALLY wanted to) as I am financially unable to. I share a similar discourse with my fellow students, but ultimately my academic and non-academic identity is different from other