This assignment asks you to observe a digital community and write a 4-5 page argumentative essay about an online discourse community
Your second project is adapted from Gaillet and Eble’s “Primary Research and Writing: People, Places, and Spaces.” In this project, you will once again conduct an observation (termed ethnography) in order to learn more about a discourse community. This time, however, we will also be using secondary sources to help us delve deeper into our understanding of a community and the way it impacts our lives. Here is the prompt:
This assignment asks you to observe a digital community and write a 4-5 page argumentative essay about an online discourse community. Your observation will focus on a form of social media—Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, or Instagram, for example. Your goal is to collect qualitative and quantitative information about how people use social media to interact in a digital community and to write an essay wherein your findings add to the current research on your chosen community.
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