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Ana Valdez

Family Discourse
Community
Audience Members: Mom,
dad, sister, brother,
nephew, and sister-in-law
Typical genres and media
used: Text messages,
Facebook, and notes
Guidelines/rules: Informal
writing but always be
respectful.
How to become member:
You are either born or
married into the family.

Friends Discourse Community

Audience Members: Lisa, Vivian, Claudia, Aaron
Typical genres and media used: Text messaging,
email, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, notes,
letters
Guidelines/rules: We can talk about everything
as long as we respect each other.
How to become a member: Just be nice and you
can join our group.

Discrete Math Discourse Community

o Audience Members: My peers and professor
o Typical genres and media used: Email, notes, text
messaging
o Guidelines/rules: When writing to the professor always
write formally, be polite, and respectful. When writing
to my peers, always be respectful but you can write
informally.
o How to become a member: In order to be in this class
you need to be a computer science or math major.
You also need to have taken Calculus 2 prior to this
class.

Student Council
Discourse
Community
Audience Members: My peers, and
coordinators
Typical genres and media used: Email,
text messages, notes, Instagram
Guidelines/rules: To my coordinators,
being polite and respectful is always
crucial, formal writing is also required. To
my peers, I can write informally, joke
around, but of course respectfulness is
always important.
How to become a member: Basically you
attend the meetings held each week.