Temple University of Philadelphia Latino Community Analysis

What You’re Doing in Project Two

Once you decide on the community you’ll use for this project, you will start by describing the community you’re analyzing – what are its characteristics, who are its members, what skills, attributes or technologies are required if any, where is it located, and what happens in this community? You will analyze its role in the larger world, by asking possible questions such as:

What makes it a community, what drives its members to take part, and what does it do?

Who does it benefit besides its members, if anyone? 

What connects members of this community to each other and in what ways does this community interact with its members internally and with other communities externally?  

You will then analyze the writing that occurs in this community:

• What are the genres commonly used in this community?
• Who are the audiences in communication with this community, and for what purposes?
• What are the rhetorical/writing situations in which members of this community are involved, and what roles do those members play? 

For your Project 2 submission, you will write a 5- to 7-page analytical essay that includes three examples of writing from your selected community. Over the course of the project, you’ll be:

Conducting a quick observation of several communities and choosing one to analyze for its writing and communication

• Learning about the make-up of the community you choose to analyze and how members interact and communicate
• Collecting examples of writing from your chosen community that will help illustrate your written analysis and address our guiding question for this project
• Writing an essay that analyzes the community you are studying for this project, and the written communication that occurs within it.