Video Gaming Community A DISCOURSE COMMUNITY WITH CONTINUOUS GROWTH. Ramiro Jimenez English 330 8/14/2015.

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Video Gaming Community A DISCOURSE COMMUNITY WITH CONTINUOUS GROWTH. Ramiro Jimenez English 330 8/14/2015

Community Goals

Mechanisms of Intercommunication  In game:  Chat Rooms  Voice Call  Video Call  Off Game:  Video Game Forums  Social Media

Communication Purposes  Strategies  Command team members  Keep in contact with their players  Share gaming experiences  Find the similarities between players.

Genre

LEXIS  N00b  RROD  SPAMMING  SPEEDRUN  TeaBag  ZOMG  PNED

Membership Diversity Gamer BeginnerCasualExperiencedExpert  First bullet point here  Second bullet point here  Third bullet point here

References  Swales, John. “The Concept of Discourse Community.” Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,  McCarthy, Lucille. “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing across the Curriculum.” Research in the Teaching of English (1987): Jstor. Web. 29 May  Major League Gaming. Major League Gaming, Inc, n.d. Web.  The NPC Group/Retail Tracking Service. Venture Beat. Web.