• Topic I chose was education as a discourse community and how it is important in order to educate future generations.
• Important aspects of paper are shown below
• Create an argument about the value, worth, and importance of your DC
• Use research (minimum 5 sources) to expand and complicate your ideas, thus creating new knowledge
• Use effective visuals (a minimum of 2) in your paper and an infographic, graph, chart, or model (minimum 1)
• Look at your DC in-depth, giving your audience a holistic view of the DCs practices, uses of specific language, criteria for membership, conventions, goals, and the genres used
• Write in the vein of a scholar for a scholarly audience who you assume is interested in your DC
• Be a minimum of 5 pages (not including a works cited)
• Create a controlled and incisive argument
• Incorporate visuals and sources effectively
• Conform to MLA format and look “pretty”

****Attached below is the rubric in its entirty *****

also attached are notes given to me from my professor in order to help outline what the paper should include