blog 6 Is our class a discourse community?

Linguist john Wales defines discourse community as groups that have goals or purposes and use communication to achieve these goals.  I believe our class is a discourse community because it contains the following elements of a discourse community.  First, for a group to be a discourse community,  there must be a way of communication. Our class communicates through blogs postings both individually and as a class.  We share information with member in the class.  We also send emails, texts and phone calls.  We have a meeting place which is in our classroom and some of us meet outside the class as needed.  We all have a common goals.  The main goal is to pass the class with good grade.  Another shared goal is the research paper which is a main assignment.  In addition, we many mini assignments that lead to the ultimate goal which is to learn the course objectives.  We also have unique vocabularies such as ethnography, analysis, intertextuality, language building tasks, social language to name a few.  These vocabularies are unique to our English class different from from Education classes and many others.  They we interact with each other, behavior and ways of speaking all display