Coaches can read, too

Establishing a territory

He begins explaining how important it is to be a football coach. he states that it doesnt matter what kind of football either; peewee to the NFL. He talks about what it takes to be a successful coach and what characteristics a coach needs to coach effectively.

Establishing a niche

He talks about what kink of skills a coach needs to coach a team effectively. what a coach needs in order to teach the team how to win their games.

Occupying the niche

for this he talks about how to put all the information that coaches have to good use. how a coach must read the other team and be able to tell their team what to do to effectively play against the opposing team. he must be able to call the plays so that the team can win.

Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers

It looks like Mirabelli's research question is something about the language that is used to communicate in diners, not only verbally but also written. he wanted to find out more about this language and specifically how it is used within the diner, both between the workers and between a worker and a customer. this is found in the literacy and contemporary theory section of the article.

the data that Mirabelli collected was "direct participation, observation, field notes, documents, interviews, tape recordings, and transcriptions"

He found that it is a lot more complicated than people think to be a waitress. it takes about 10 years to become an expert at it which is the same amount of time that it takes to become an expert at anything. He found that there is a different language that waitresses and people in restaurants use including the use of a menu, which is pretty much exclusive to restaurants.

Discourse Community Proposal

The discourse community that I will be examining is Camp Akita in Logan, Ohio. I began attending the camp the summer before 6^th grade and was a camper every summer through high school. Starting the summer before my sophomore year I began a program called L.I.F.E. Guard where I volunteered at the camp for two weeks every summer for four summers. The summer before my sophomore and junior years of college I worked at the camp as a counselor. And starting this past April I began working in the kitchen. Through out these years I went to many fall and spring retreats and volunteered in the non-summer months to help keep the camp beautiful.

Because of the fact that I have attended or worked just about every job available at this location I think that I know a lot about this discourse community. I am a member of this community and have been since 6th grade. The very first time I ever went to Akita was in 3^rd grade but I don’t think I joined the community at that time. Not only am I a member of this community as a whole, but I believe that I am a member of various smaller communities within the camp so I will be trying to explore a little bit of each of those communities.

I just want to learn more about how discourse communities operate and communicate. The concept of looking at a group as a discourse community is new to me so I think I will learn a lot from looking at something that I have known for so long in a new way.

I plan on citing Gee’s and Wardle’s articles in my paper as well as probably using ‘Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers’. I haven’t read the latter yet but believe that it will apply to my paper because I am going to interview one person from the kitchen at Camp Akita.