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Abstract
Introduction
6. A discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant
content and discourse expertise (Swales, 1990, p.473).
Harmony Miners Organization has several administrators its starts off with the President
and Vice president, Secretary, and Treasurer, after that its the Media coordinator, Student
Activities which is divided into two parts and ran by two people. One part is for student activities
at Utep and the other one is outside of Utep. The last one is the Community Service coordinator.
All of the events have to be brought up to the board to be approved. Once its approved the
budget approval has to be filled out by the coordinator and sent to the treasurer and then
approved by her. After all of that the event is then presented to the members.
Conclusion
Reference page
Porter, J. E. (1986). Intertextuality and the Discourse Community. In E. Wardle, & D.
Downs, Writing about Writing (p. 400). Boston, New York: bedford St. Martins.
Swales, J. (1990). The Concept of Discourse Community. In E. Wardle, & D. Downs,
Writing about Writing (pp. 215-223). Boston, New York: Bedford/ St. Martin's.