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Understanding Discourse Community And Its Importance
by Deanna Mascle

As an experienced conversationalist who has been wielding verbal words since toddlerhood, you easily move from one group of people to another adjusting your tone, your vocabulary, and your syntax accordingly. Often without thinking about it, you speak differently to your parents than you do to your teachers and differently from both groups when alone with your friends. You would not dream of using the same speech patterns in the locker room and the church sanctuary.

Most writers understand the concept of audience and why it is important to understand who their audience is when composing. Yet simply understanding the


Author's Biography:

Deanna Mascle is a professional writer as well as a teacher of writing. Find more of her

Posted on: May 4,2008


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