Personal Narrative: My High School Discourse Community
In the first few weeks of ENG 1301, we talked about the significance of learning rhetorical skills. We learned that when we know how to use ethos, logos, and pathos appeals, we can pull the audience the way we want. For intense, I can use ethos, pathos, and logos appeal to make someone to take me to the park. Although to belong to discourse community, we must know how the people in the community interact with each other. Not only that, it is important that we have similar interests or goals. In this essay, I will prove you that I effectively joined a discourse community of high school dance by learning dance terms, earning credibility, and leading my classmates. Now I am going to show how I successfully became the part of my high school discourse community by mastering
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I have been in many discourse communities where member share their ideas and what they have learned. Once I had a dream to become a professional dancer. I was introduced to dancing when I was six years of age, and I fell in love with dancing ever since. I used to watch Bollywood movies which is known for songs and dances and I was mesmerized by their out of the world choreography. They looked so lively, and it felt like they use the body movements to express the world in a very enticing way. I joined the dance class during my freshmen year thinking all I will have to learn is movements like Bollywood dances from the teacher. Although, high school dance was more like learning the movement terms in words, bringing it to real life in action and most of the time performing. For that to happen, I needed to be in a good shape with my classmates so I can receive their help but it was not like that in this case. Being an immigrant from Nepal with limited English was challenging
I have been in many discourse communities where member share their ideas and what they have learned. Once I had a dream to become a professional dancer. I was introduced to dancing when I was six years of age, and I fell in love with dancing ever since. I used to watch Bollywood movies which is known for songs and dances and I was mesmerized by their out of the world choreography. They looked so lively, and it felt like they use the body movements to express the world in a very enticing way. I joined the dance class during my freshmen year thinking all I will have to learn is movements like Bollywood dances from the teacher. Although, high school dance was more like learning the movement terms in words, bringing it to real life in action and most of the time performing. For that to happen, I needed to be in a good shape with my classmates so I can receive their help but it was not like that in this case. Being an immigrant from Nepal with limited English was challenging