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    10/10: Your History of Collaboration

    We’ll begin today by revisiting Bruffee. Do you have questions or thoughts about the article? We’ll look together at p. 642, where Bruffee offers a definition that is related to how we’ve understood discourse communities: “A community of knowledgeable peers is a group of people who accept, and whose work is guided by, the same paradigms and the same code of values and assumptions.” Think about the work you just completed in your Discourse Community Analysis assignment. How does this definition align with or deviate from Gee’s and Johns’? INDIVIDUAL WRITING Think again of the many discourse communities in your life, but this time think specifically about when you’ve collaborated “in…