In this blog, I will write about my experience in understanding discourse writing. I started to write this blog four weeks after first reading of “A Lover’s Discourse” by Barthes. At the beginning, the subject of the discourse was vague to me. After discusing this subject in the class a couple of times and after I have read the post, ” How to Write a Discourse” by Mr. McGinnis on the boardsheet the picture of the discourse started to clear up for me. Also, my understanding was strengthened after reading couple of last semester’s students work on their Wiki pages.
The first difficulty that I faced when I was thinking about what discourse I will be writing was finding the main resourse for my discourse. Selecting the subject for the discousre was not hard since the recommendation was to choose a subject that the writer has experienced for an extended period of time. At the beginning I thought about two discourses: “An Architect’s Discourse” and ”A Father’s Discourse.” I finally chose the father’s discourse because I thought that it is more generic and the required resourses could be found easier.
Writing a discourse could be defined as a way of writing a text which examines and identifies experiences that we encounter in certain role that we as a humans wear. The method of elaboration and expansion in discouse writing is achieved by examining how various resources like a novel, lyrics of a song or a movie deal with a certain moment of recognition that could be felt while one is living a life of a certain role or character. There are benefits for the students while they search for resourses for their discourse . It widens and enriches the research capabilities of the students and help to expose them to various readings in orde to find how a certain resource deals with an identified phenomena.
In the end, I found the discourse methodology an interesting and a creative way of writing texts effectively.
