Blog

Discourse community: Hospitality Industry
Details:
– Could pick any hospitality industry word
-could talk about the different in talking not proper English at school & taking proper english at work
-curretly work in the industry
-My major is hospitality industry management
– could make up/ lie any story to add to the essay
– i speak Spanish and my family is Spanish: could add Spanish words
Professor Instructions:
In Essay One, you will write about the language of a community you are a part of. You’ll do this, as Diaz and Latifah and Klass have, by focusing largely on a particular word or phrase or bit of jargon that is at the heart of this community. Tell your readers, mostly outsiders from this community, why this word MATTERS (and in so doing, teach us about the community itself.)
This should be a word that many of your readers are somewhat unfamiliar with– at least the way you use it. So this isn’t a word like “family” or “love,” but an insider word, one that some people can use or others can’t–or a word that means different things when different people use it. This word might be in a different language, or it may be a slang word.
Show us the word in action– tell us a story or two about it. Show it being used!
You might write about the language of your community by outright explaining it

to us, or you might just… use the language of your community in writing to show us how it’s done! In other words, you are free to write in any way that feels natural to you and that you think best expresses the importance and meaning of the word you choose. You may write in what you consider the language of your community. You may write in “standard written English,” (SWE) if you like. Either way, even if you write in SWE, you should be able to explain why you’ve chosen the language you have. Why is this language the best tool for the job?
Here are some questions and ideas to think about before you begin writing. This may give you some ideas to get started, but your essay shouldn’t be just a list of answers to these questions!
1. What was your first experience of this word/ phrase? What was your first impression of its meaning? Has its meaning changed for you over time?
2. Why is this word important to you and your community?
3. Is there a way using this word correctly indicates membership in the community?
4. Who is allowed to use this word and who is not? Or how does this word change when people from outside the community use the word?
5. Who do you think needs to know about this word? What do they need to know? Why?
6. Brainstorm scenes and memories, important events having to do with this word.