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Review Of Kevin Davis Does Coming To College Mean Becoming Someone New

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In “Does Coming to College Mean Becoming Someone New?”, Kevin Davis argues that when going to college students face the choice of becoming someone new to fit into the discourse community of their chosen degree or select a new one more aligned with their style and values. Using his personal experience, Davis demonstrates his unsuccessful attempt to join the English discourse community. Consequently, Davis “felt like an outsider” (80) when starting his studies as an English major, a degree, he felt, would fit well with his “love of reading and writing” (80). The all-in commitment to becoming someone new to join, Davis clarifies is reason he never became a member of the English major community, and decided he would go into business instead. After a while, in the business sphere, he returned to the academic world and found a discourse community that he felt accepted him as he was the discourse community known as rhetoricians. As a result, Davis discovered he fit …show more content…

Consequently, Davis determines students must accomplish four things to adapt their writing and thinking if they want to succeed in colleges’ unknown academic discourse community. They are to recognize and accept the forms of the community, learn to think in ways valued by the community, have a reliable writing process that they are comfortable with changing from task to task, and become wholly involved in the community. Thus, to succeed in colleges’ unfamiliar academic discourse community, students must adapt their writing and thinking to conform to the discourse community of their choice. To illustrate this idea, Davis examines personal involvement issues by interviewing two students over six months as they start their undergraduate studies in social

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