Discourse Community

Hey, this is Ruby Rhone, and this is my discourse

community map.

So, a little background creating this map, I chose professional

careers that I'm interested in in the future in hopes

that it would kind of help me make a decision

on or help at least point me in the right

direction of which one I might want to belong to.

So up.

First, we have the doctor community.

Um, their subjects are patients.

Medical revelations, diseases in medicine.

Um, the genres are patient charts, medical history forms, the

general pager and communication devices.

Um, there conventions are writing prescriptions and bad handwriting or

using code and shortened words on devices like pagers or

other devices that they might happen to you.

So specialized language is medical terminology or and word coding.

Um, like I stated in the convention.

So, for example, new Mo is air thoracic is chest

for medical terminology and word coding.

Code blue is cardiac or respiratory arrest.

So in order to join, you have to graduate with

a bachelor's degree and apply and get accepted into med

school. So once you complete medical school, you focus on

residency and possibly a fellowship.

So once you complete residency.

You are technically a doctor during residency, but now you're

an official doctor.

So depending on what type of doctor you are, you

could also join the association related to your field.

So, for example, the A O.

GF is the American Association of Obstetrics and Gynecologists Foundation.

So that's related more towards the obstetrics and gynecologists field

versus the A M.

A, which is just the General American Medical Association, which

is kind of a more broad association to belong to,

which can really go for any doctor.

Um, in order to stay in this community, you have

to work at a hospital, read research articles and perform

exams or surgeries, and possibly give your input to medical

journals. I couldn't find anywhere that said it was mandatory

to give your input to medical journals, so I assume

it's not.

But it is still important that you probably read up

on them and take note of all the things that

they're saying so you can keep up to date.

The next community is the dentist community.

Um, their subject is teeth and overall mouth health.

So they're genres are kind of the same is doctors

with patient care charts and Dennis charts, research articles and

dental magazines.

Um, Dennis actually communicate a lot through dental magazines.

That's where they put all of their latest findings and

things about updated equipment and the proper way toe are

the new proper technique to do things.

Um, there conventions are filling and writing out periodontal charts

and counting teeth.

Specialized language is once again terminology, so plaque cavity decay.

Crown enamel is what we would say for what they

would say for things like filling in a twofer, replacing

a tooth and things like that.

How to join you earned a bachelor's degree, take the

dental admission exam and go to dental school for four

years. Once you graduate, you apply for a job in

a dentist's office, and once you receive the job, you

become a part of that community.

In order to stay active in the community, you should

work in an office and see patients daily, and you

can also subscribe to magazines and attend conventions.

Once again, those things aren't mandatory, but they would help

you stay up to date within the community on new

findings and things like better equipment.

Um, the next community is the marine biologist community.

Yeah. Um, their subject is marine animals and ecology.

So the ecosystems revolving around that, um, the genres are

research articles, lab reports using what notes and underwater slates.

So wet notes are wet notes and underwater slates are

thes things that they can use to write on while

they're in the water.

So things don't get ruined, and they can easily pass

it on to the next biologist in their lab.

Um, there conventions are using scientific names for the environment,

which I'll talk more about in specialized language.

So they use a general scientific terminology which a lot

of other departments use, so they use the scientific name

for animals.

How we would say shark, they would say selection, more

fa, or how we would probably say coral.

They would say, Anton's oa how to join?

Um, you just you receive a bachelor's degree from any

science field that relates to the environment or marine life

or marine animals, and you can choose to pursue a

master's degree and a PhD.

And although its not mandatory, it is very strongly encouraged

and doing research on locations of where you might wanna

work so whether that be Hawaii, California, Florida You apply

for a job, and once you get the job, you

start working there and you are part of the discourse

community. So in order to stay a part of the

community you have tow, communicate with people that it's very

important for marine biologist to communicate with people because their

findings are beneficial to other people.

So communicating with people like sharing your thoughts and ideas,

reading research articles and speaking about your findings elsewhere, that's

basically mandatory for that career field.

Um, and that's it for mine.

I had fun making this discourse community map.

Um, I didn't type out all the similarities, either, because

for when I felt like it was kind of obvious,

because all of mine relate to the science, community and

science field.

But going deeper into that, you could also point out

a similarity that they all relate to helping people or

helping something, whether that be an ecosystem or a patient.

And I think that's pretty cool.

So that is my discourse community map.

Thank you

Discourse Community

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