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In addition to technical knowledge, MIT graduates need to know how to analyze audiences and attend to differences in discourse conventions, how to analyze and produce specialized genres and forms of argumentation, and how to compose, evaluate, and integrate oral, written, visual, and digital modes of communication.
The scientific community, so skilled at working within its own discourse conventions, must also concentrate on how to express these notions clearly to non-technicians.
Discourse conventions in cooperative conversation are adapted to facilitate this process: The speakers employ locutions that reveal their intended effects, and their acknowledgments and turn-taking consolidate mutual understanding.
The mutual knowledge of the participants in a dialogue can be assumed to include the overt contents of their utterances and common general knowledge, including knowledge of discourse conventions.
Research (e.g., Bardovi-Harlig, Hartford, Mahan-Taylor, Morgan, & Raynolds 1991; Cutting, 2008; Huang, 2010) suggests that language learners need pragmatic instruction to gain exposure to samples of social, cultural, and discourse conventions of the target language.
While you can and should develop a rigorous course design and set robust expectations, try to avoid making assumptions about their base of knowledge in your field or discourse conventions with writing and research in your discipline.
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Understanding the meaning and nuances in international discourse is critical, as conventions and frameworks at this scale tend to guide the flow of funding and project implementation for a considerable period (often a decade or more).
In observance of contemporary poetic conventions, Sidney discourses in the sonnets on reason and passion, wit and will.
In 1787, Benjamin Franklin proposed prayer as a way of encouraging discourse during the Constitutional Convention, citing how it helped during the American Revolution.
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