Once you’ve identified the specific audience, you’ll need to interactwith members of that group to identify their expectations of genres,
You have to know your audience before interacting with a group of people
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- Oct 2025
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Some cultures might prefer more images in a space/related to a block of text than others
Stories can be told in a more picture-heavy manner
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Cultures can have different expectations of the order in which one needs topresent information in a genre for the related text to be considered credible
Cultural expectations can differ depending on the context and audience that you are presenting your information to
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- Sep 2025
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How have you—consciously or not—learned and practiced the expec-tations of language in each of them?
You subconsciously adapt and learn the language of groups you are in
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Discourse communities are also fluid; they are always changing acrosstime
Discourse changes and grows over time depending on the topic being focused on by a community
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Now imagine you’re having a conversation about the same topic, butyou’re in a classroom where you are a student; maybe it’s your first-yearwriting course. To what extent does your sense of how you’d use language,voice, or gesture about the topic change in this community?
If you are in a classroom based environment you might hold back your opinion a little bit, as well as trying to remain more Pg/PG-13
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