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I do believe that our class is a Discourse Community.  Our class has a common goal of learning how to use different research methods for our research projects.  Also, our class has our own lexis.  Our language in class differs from the language used in other classes.  My other classes would not understand the meaning of a "discourse community" or "lexis."  The terms used in our class may not be understood from outsiders.  As individuals in this class I would say that we have different genres.  Each student has different views and opinions about what English is, but as a whole, we can come to a broad definition.  Our class is part of a larger Discourse Community for writing majors at Kean.  We all have to take the same courses in order to graduate and possibly have the same professors as well.  Evidence from my field work proves that we are a Discourse Community.  We all have to partake in class meetings, we all have identical assignments due for the class, we all know how to type on a computer, and we are all human beings.