In this essay I focused on a discourse community – Virginia Beach Commissary (grocery store). I was a bagger at the Commissary myself and therefore I could use my past experience and memories as a method of collecting information. I explained how Commissary baggers are example of discourse community through describing 6 characteristics of discourse community. I mainly focused on how lack of common sense between workers impacts the store as a whole. This ethnography is meant to start an interest among public and conduction of more researches on this topic. My thesis focused on lack of common sense between the high school students that work as baggers at Virginia Beach Commissary.
Throughout this essay I worked on organizing a large amount of facts in a correct order. Organizing was harder in this specific genre, because I had to state my thesis, add background info, include memories, and complete several other tasks at the same time. I believe that I still need to work on organizing sentences within paragraphs in order to prove my point. For example I struggled in the last paragraph when I had to reflect on my thesis and didn’t know where to state it. Overall it was a new experience since I have never wrote about discourse communities.