Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Discourse Community Presentations

I thought that everyone in our class had a unique discourse in which they presented. The bollywood presentation was pretty interesting i guess since I did not really know what it was until that day. I liked the belly dancing this interests me because I too can bellydance. There was another presentation that was given which kind of upset me and a few others in the class. In this particular presentation something was said similar to freshman students who are not student athletes do have as much responsibility and stress and do not have to get up as early as freshman athletes, and I could understand where this person was coming from in saying this and i know this person is really nice and probably did not mean to offend anyone but I could not help as to take that presentation personally. The presentation just seemed like a dis to all non student athletes. Even though it was not meant in that manner and other than that presentation I like this person just some of the things that were said seemed like the presenter did not put too much research into their paper and a writer should not use the words always and never. Also the paper was also about discussing stereotypes your discourse community faces, but in doing so I felt this person stereotyped other groups outside of their own, which is not right.

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