Reflection Paper 3
Reflection Paper 3
Reflection Paper 3
Eng 13 – WFX2
students from the College of Science. Its broadly agreed set of goals are: to serve the UP
community, especially the students of the College of Science, through projects and initiatives;
and to inform them on current social issues to arouse collective action. Although these goals are
not officially inscribed in the council constitution, everything the council does aligns or directly
stems from them. Our primary mechanism of intercommunication is Facebook; we utilize its
group features such as the Facebook Group and Messenger. We use these mainly to provide and
gather updates from each other. Our main participatory mechanism is the General Assembly,
where members gather once every two weeks to discuss the current status of the council and the
students, and to propose plans on how we should move forward. The different genres we utilize
include the minutes of the meeting where the discussion points of the General Assembly are
inscribed, the proposal letter where the council puts forward partnership proposals to other
organizations, and the publication materials where we communicate to the students through
social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Some specific lexis that our conventions have
created include the IGP (income-generating project), BMI (basic masses integration), orye
One discourse community (or the possibility thereof) I wish to explore is that of Badjaos
and/or other indigenous peoples begging for alms in jeepneys and streets. I want to know more
about their personal stories and try to shed light on their current situation as a people. The
motivation for this is that many people have speculated, reported, or insisted that these people
are hired by syndicates. Several local government authorities have treated these people as
problems that have to be taken care of, and not as decent human beings who are possible victims
of oppression. In this exploration, I wish to interview some of them and eventually prove or
disprove the belief that they are hired by private individuals. If I happen to discover that they are
indeed somewhat organized, I wish to investigate their discourse community further by asking
questions such as: what are their individual goals? Their goals as a group? Do they communicate
with each other? If yes, how and when? Does someone provide instructions to them? If yes, who
and why? What are the different genres they use to beg for alms? Do they have specific lexis?
Do they have “seniors” who instruct them on what to do, or have relevant experience on what
they do? Ultimately, I wish to deepen the exploration by investigating how commercialism has
Another discourse community I wish to explore is the advocacy groups for indigenous
peoples, such as Save Our Schools Network. The primary motivation for this is to create
strategies on how such discourse community can further expand its membership, how it can
expand its mechanisms of intercommunication, how its lexis can develop to further its aims, and
what different genres it can utilize to reach a wider audience. Such exploration would entail
studying about their history, their goals, and the current state of their discourse community, for
the ultimate purpose of helping the Lumad people regain their right to self-determination and to
ancestral domains.