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    9/19: Working With Artifacts & Genres

    I’ll be using the words artifacts and genres interchangeably today as we move through an exercise in preparation for Project 1, the Discourse Community Analysis. HOMEWORK Your in-class writing in response to your artifact/genre is a draft of BP2. As a reminder, here is the prompt: According to Johns, genres enable communication within a discourse community and represent the “values, needs, and practices of the community that produces them” (56). What is the genre or artifact that represents your discourse community? Who is the author? For whom, specifically, is your genre composed? How does it represent the “values, needs, and practices” of your discourse? Finish composing BP2 in a post…