Project 1 Essay Criteria
A successful Project 1 Essay will meet the following criteria
How do you define rhetoric? Discourse? Discourse community?
● How does the definition of rhetoric impact discourse within a community?
● How do you know that your discourse community and the course theme discourse
community satisfy the definition of discourse community?
● What characteristics of discourse have you observed in your discourse community and
in the course theme discourse community?
n answering these questions, incorporate the following:
● Quotes from the readings
● Text from your reading summaries
● Specific examples from your discourse community
● Specific examples from the course theme discourse community
Make sure you include in-text citations and a references page for your sources. Also, include
specific examples of the characteristics and/or interactions you observed in your discourse
community and in the course theme discourse community.
● Define clearly the following terms
○ Rhetoric
○ Discourse
○ Discourse Communities
● Use the evidence (i.e., quotes and paraphrases) from the readings to support and
explain each of the definitions provided
● Apply the definitions provided to characterize the observations of the student’s chosen
discourse community
● Explicitly establish how and why the student’s chosen discourse community meets the
criteria for a discourse community
● Apply the definitions provided to characterize the observations of the course theme
discourse community
● Explicitly establish how and why the student’s course theme discourse community meets
the criteria for a discourse community
● Use effective academic writing style, to include citations and references
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1112029108