Degree field- Criminal Justice (Digital Forensics) For this assignment you will complete a form, providing information about 4 things: The program (discipline) you are stud

 Degree field- Criminal Justice (Digital Forensics)

For this assignment you will complete a form, providing information about 4 things:

1. The program (discipline) you are studying (examples: Intelligence Studies or Criminal Justice).
2. Some  ways you learned about folks in your discipline (looking at journals,  websites, organizations, books, blogs, podcasts, etc.).
3. Tips for communicating with folks in your discipline gathered from Artificial Intelligence (AI).
4. YOUR tips for communicating with folks in your discipline (merging AI observations with your own).

Read  the information below for a broad understanding of the purpose of this  assignment. Refer to the attached template for more specific details on  what to do.

What is a discourse community?

You  learned earlier that writing does not exist in a vacuum, that it is a  conversation between writer and reader. One scholar, Erik Borg, says  that “We do not generally use language to communicate with the world at  large, but with individuals or groups of individuals…these groups are  gathered into communities.”

Each  of us belongs to a number of these groups (called discourse  communities). If you stop at a coffee shop routinely, you are a member  of that community. Members know what the “rules” are for communicating  with each other, what kind of greeting is used, what the standard length  of comments is, what kind of comments are acceptable, and what kind are  not. Other discourse communities might be related to activities with  children, fitness, or church. You can probably think of examples of a  conversation topic or a greeting that would be acceptable at the gym but  not at church. In this assignment, you are going to look at the  communication that occurs in one of your discourse communities, the one  formed by an interest in your field of study (major, program, or  discipline).

How do I learn about the discourse community in my field?  

What  will you be looking for? You will be looking at the kinds of reading  and writing members of the community do; the expectations and rules  (conventions) for the communication; the way they communicate with each  other online; and other tips that help you understand this group.

Here’s an easy way to gather this information. 

1. Click the link in the classroom to the APUS Library. 
2. Click the link Subject A-Z.
3. Click  the alphabet letter that starts the name of your degree program (N for  Nursing, F for Fire Science, A for Accounting, etc.).
4. Click the name of your degree program (Nursing, Fire Science, Accounting, etc.).
5. Look  through the many choices listed there, including databases,  multi-media, podcasts, websites, career, associations, government  agencies, and social media. Click numerous links in these choices and  see what you can learn about how these professionals communicate with  each other and those outside the field. Look at how these professionals  write by reading items in the sites as well as tips offered for persons  new to the field. 

Once I’ve learned about my field’s discourse community, what do I do with that information?

After you have looked at your program in the library’s page, do the following steps.

1. Go to a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) site, such as ChatGPT or Google Bard, and type a question like this into the site’s chat box: 

What style of writing do professionals in the field of ___(type in your program)___ use?

Example questions to ask AI: 

What style of writing do professionals in the field of nursing use?  

What style of writing do professionals in the field of sports fitness use? 

Copy  and paste the answer from AI into a Word document. Be sure to write in  the name of the AI tool you used to get these results. You will be  pasting this information in the template to be turned in.

(NOTE: This site is a comprehensive catalog of AI tools: Futurepedia, The Largest AI Tools Directory. It is updated daily. Do a search for General Writing to get started.)

1. Open the template for the assignment and save it as a Word file with the title “(Your last name) Report on Communication.” 
2. Answer the questions on the template with the information you have gathered and the analysis you have done.