Outline- Micro-Ethnography on RA community (Residential

Advisor)

Who is the RA community?

What do they do?
How does this community fir Swales characteristics of a discourse
community?
What are my goals in finding research?

Swales six characteristics of a discourse community are as

follow:

1. A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of

common public goals.
What are public goals of this community?
2. A discourse community has mechanisms of
intercommunication among its members.
What form of intercommunication does this community use?
3. A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms
primarily to provide information and feedback.
How does this community use this mechanism ? to fit the criteria.
4. A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or
more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims.
What genres of communication does this community posses?
5. In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has
acquired a specific lexis.

Does this community have a specific lexis? If so, what is it? How
does it fit the criteria?
6. A discourse community has a threshold level of members
with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal
expertise
Who are these people, and how do they become valid for this position?
Quests:
1. Two Observations One in Moore Hall and the second in Hunt
Hall (These Halls are living facilities on campus at UNCC)
2. Interviews with Nichole, Colby and Troy.
Note: Record sessions, take notes. Analyze before writing.