Portfolio 2

Aside from group work within our discourse community there are also individual technologies that are beneficial to our discourse community. One example of these individual technologies within our community would be the daybook writing. Yes daybook writings are considered a technology even though paper and pencil are the extent of the equipment needed to perform a daybook writing. But the thing about a daybook is that there are no limits or constraints in regards to how to write. It’s an individual style of writing that reflects the individual’s style and personality. Each day within our community we are given a question or thought to write about. I consider this free write because there is no right or wrong answers and it’s an individual writing style. Individualism is needed within a discourse community however, the reason being is because without individuality, there would be no uniqueness within the community. John Swales says that each member in a discourse community brings their own ideals and individualism to the community making it unique but, there still needs to be a base goal or common goal between all the members. The next artifact or technology that was used within our community is a voice thread. Voice threads are an effective way to get your point across through a video recording or a voice recording of yourself. Then people can either post a comment by video, record, or text. Voice threads were effective for a while until our discourse community stopped using them. The reason for this is because the blog was such an effective tool used within our discourse community that eventually the blog over ran the voice thread. However for its time being the voiced thread proved to be an effective tool for presenting main points within a text or other source, however; it was only a matter of time before the blog became the main tool for our discourse community.