“How do Texts Mediate Activities?”
According to this article our literate histories influence the way we write. We also use texts to attempt to do something or “mediate” activities. Mediate in this context means to intervene to shape an experience. This term is appropriate because by mediating our activities through texts, we are influencing our experiences. We write for many purposes, in which genres help identify these purposes. There are examples of rhetorical situations in which we write such as: wedding invitations vs. horoscopes, and papers vs. poems. They serve different purposes and possess different formats.
Before reading this, I was not aware of what a discourse community was. Discourse communities share common goals. There are 6 specific concepts to a discourse community:
According to this article our literate histories influence the way we write. We also use texts to attempt to do something or “mediate” activities. Mediate in this context means to intervene to shape an experience. This term is appropriate because by mediating our activities through texts, we are influencing our experiences. We write for many purposes, in which genres help identify these purposes. There are examples of rhetorical situations in which we write such as: wedding invitations vs. horoscopes, and papers vs. poems. They serve different purposes and possess different formats.
Before reading this, I was not aware of what a discourse community was. Discourse communities share common goals. There are 6 specific concepts to a discourse community:
- Broadly agreed set of common public goals
- Mechanisms of intercommunication among its members
- Uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback
- Utilizes and hence possess one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims
- Acquired some lexis
- Members with expertise