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Assignment: 1. Your basic task here is to report on a Community of Practice [CoP]. Try to specific in the CoP identity that you choose (e.g. Big Hills Church, the Radio Shack softball team, Path of Exile gamers, employees of 16th Street Mall Starbucks, the Broken Family drinking buddies). It is not necessary for you to have any experience with the CoP that you describe. As long as you are interested (for any reason) in the CoP that you describe, include your responses to the following bolded questions:
What is the CoP called? Are there multiple names or labels for the CoP? Do community members call the CoP something different than outsiders? If the CoP doesn't have a name, you'll need to create one.
Why do you think this group of people constitutes a CoP? What language practices or other behaviors are particular to the CoP? Where or how do the members engage with one another? What goals or other reasons for being together help define the CoP identity?
Why you are interested in this particular CoP?
Describe 2 unique community practices. Again, "practice" means a communicative behavior that is recognized by members of the community and has a specific meaning for them. A practice could be a special word, phrase, handshake, item of clothing, etc... What are the origins of the practices? How are they used? How do the practices relate to sociocultural nature of the CoP?
2. Comment on one way that the CoP you described for Prompt 1 is similar to the Deaf Community.