Launguage and Discourse Assessment item 1: Elements of Discourse
Notes on Assessment One
Assessment Description
Assessment item 1: Elements of Discourse
Identify a major discourse operating in the contemporary world and its key elements.
Objective(s): a and b,
Weight: 20%
Due: Week 4 (in class)
Length: 750 words
Task:
Identify a major discourse operating in the contemporary world and its key elements.
Criteria:
• Relevance of choice of discourse
• Clarity of description of elements
• Coherence of points
• Relevance of referenced material
• Quality of researched materials
• This assignment can be presented in dot points as you identify each element in turn.
• You must use a minimum of FIVE references.
• Remember a discourse is:
Discourse Rules and practices that produce meaningful statements and regulate behaviours and institutions in different historical periods
And the elements of a discourse are:
Elements of Discourse
• construct the topic
• defines and produces the objects of our knowledge
• it governs the way that a topic can be meaningfully talked about and reasoned about
• it influences how ideas are put into practice and used to regulate the conduct of others
• produces a subject through the discourse.
Approaching the Assessment
• One of the best ways into this assignment is to identify some of your own key identities. For example are you or have you ever been understood as having a particular race, ethnicity or class? Being a particular sex or gender? Having a particular sexuality or occupying a particular role such as mother, father, worker patient, crimminal, deviant etc etc? These are all steps towards identifying particular subject positions which arise from a particular discourse. You then need to step back and decide if the organising discourse is a big one like ‘class discourse’ or a smaller discourse like ‘maternal discourse’.
• The next step is to research. The simplest way of doing so is to put your identified discourse into a one of the search boxes of the key journal databases like Proquest Central, Taylor and Francis Online or Jstor among others. (See the Language and Discourse Study Guide on UTS Online for further hints) and read through what comes up. If nothing does come up consider whether your identified discourse is actually a discourse and also seek help from the library with how to search. After having read a variety of materials simply answer each ‘Element’ in turn.
• Don’t forget to reference your work.
• And don’t forget the word limit of 750words.
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