ETHNOGRAPHIC Research Paper (2000 words) YOUR TASK: Research a Discourse Community with special attention to how they form their identity and write a 2000-word research paper detailing your findings

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BACKGROUND: In this course, we’ve been looking about how “identity” is both shaped by and shapes individuals. Our largest concerns thus far have been race and gender. Now, we will turn our attention to the many smaller groups that people belong to, either by choice or by chance.

James Paul Gee defines a Discourse a sort of ‘identity kit’ which comes complete with appropriate costume and instructions on how to act, talk, believe (or at least appear to believe), and often write, so as to take on a particular social role that others will recognize.