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McMillan, David W. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
This is a response to the Nowell and Boyd (2010) article printed in this journal titled: Viewing Community as Responsibility as Well as Resource: Deconstructing the Theoretical Roots of Psychological Sense of Community. In that article, they argued that the McMillan theory of Sense of Community is a simplistic, needs-based theory that excludes…
Descriptors: Community, Group Dynamics, Social Psychology, Group Membership
Sword, Helen – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Every discipline has its own specialized language, its membership rites, its secret handshake. In its most benign and neutral definition, jargon signifies "the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group." More often, however, the jingly word that Chaucer used to describe "the inarticulate utterance of birds" takes…
Descriptors: Jargon, Academic Discourse, Discourse Communities, Language Styles
Satie, Stephanie – 2001
As two groups of teachers met to set up a HyperNews network for a grant project, it became clear that politics cannot be kept out of the classroom. In creating a community of diverse writers via HyperNews, six composition classes were linked for online discourse among departments: Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies, Pan African Studies, and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Cultural Pluralism, Discourse Communities, Diversity (Faculty)
Balester, Valerie – 1988
Rhetorical ethos, or the character of the rhetor as she presents herself in discourse, is vital to the success of any student attempting to enter the universe of academic discourse. According to Aristotle, ethos is demonstrated by showing good sense, good character, and good will. However, in the modern university, with the diversity of…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, College English