Luis Carranza Professor Schley English 1101 8 October 2013 Discourse Ethnography Annotated Bibliography Branick, Sean.

Coaches Can Read, Too: An Ethnographic Study of a Football Coaching Discourse Community Writing About Writing. Elizabeth Wardle, Doug Downs. Boston: Bedford/St. Matins, 2011. 557-573. Print.

Summarize: Coaches are one of the most influential professions that exist in todays world There are three main factors related to good coaching: Goal focused, characteristics of good coaching, and confidence A coaching staff is a discourse community because of its shared goals, lexis, and genres.

Assess: According to Branick coaches are a very influential part in todays world and that coaches range from parents volunteering to professionals who work all day every day. There are three main overlooked factors to become a good coach which are: being goal focused, having the right qualities and characteristics of an effective coach, and being confident in coaching. Through interviews and observing several different college level coaching staffs, Branick came to the conclusion that a coaching staff is a discourse community because they have shared goals, lexis, and genres. Reflection: This ethnography showed me that while it may not seem as obvious to the casual observer, there are discourse communities everywhere. It also showed me that for a community to be able to reach its

goal there has to be at least one member with expertise. I feel that although this ethnography does make very good points, Branick is biased in his writing because he was a football player and a student coach at his college, but even though he is biased he keeps it out of his ethnography, for the most part, and his theory is well researched

Mirabelli, Tony. Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers. What They Dont Learn in School. Ed. Jabari Mahiri. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. 538-554. Print.

Summarize: Most blue collar workers including waiters and waitresses are not ignorant and dumb but they can be very intellegent We need to reevaluate the way we see literacy in the workplace In service occupations there is less emphisis on reading texts and more on reading people, situations, and the environment. Analyze: Even though we see many workers in the service industries as dumb they can be very intellegent, and play a very important in our economy. Most people see literacy in the workplace as just the texts that we read, but this isn't true there are many different types of audial and visual literacies that we normally don't think about. There is more emphesis on these lesser thought of literacies in blue collar jobs and they are very important in these types of jobs. This importance makes it essential for the workers to understand these literacies in their community to be successful. Reflection: Mirabellis essay, showed me that genres and literacy are important in every community. It has also helped me understand that literacy isn't just the texts that the community uses but also how the

members are able to read others and situations. It has also helped me because if I know the specific literacies in my community it will help me understand the community even better.

Swales, John. The Concept of Discourse Community. Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings. Boston: Cambridge UP, 1990. 21-32. Print.

Summarize: Arguements about Speech Communities and Discourse Communities What a Discourse Community really is Defining characteristics of a Discourse Community

Analyze: In this section of Swales' book he talks about an ongoing argument between the differences of speech communities and discourse communities and how many people confuse the two. He also talks about what a discourse community really is and the six characteristics of a Discourse Community and how these charateristics are different from a speech community. Reflection: This section helped me make out what a Discourse Community is and seperate it from other communities that aren't discourse communities. It also helped me in understanding what characteristics it takes to become a Discourse Community. This has also helped me by allowing me to see how my Discourse Community fits each of these characteristics.

Wardle, Elizabeth. Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces. Enculturation 5.2 (2004): n. pag. Web. 18 Feb. 2010

Summarize: Discourse Communities in a workplace Identity and Authority in a workplace are connected to how well one can communicate with others. Everyone in the workplace must understand and know their role in the community and workplace. When someone doesn't understand their role, identity, and authority in the workplace or everyone in the community will be harmed. Analyze: In Wardle's article, she explains how our identity and authority in a workplace are connected to how well we communicate with our coworkers and how well we are able to clearly get our information across. She also outlines theories that help new members learn to communicate and write in this new community. She follows that up with an example of a new member, Alan, who struggles to learn the correct role he has and he also fails to learn his position in the community and because of this isn't taken seriously and sees himself as above everyone else when he really isn't.

Reflection: This article made it easy for me to understand where some of the newcomers in the community where coming from and where they were at in their learning process and it also made me be able to identify some of the newcomers in the community.