Discourse paper explanation please?

Question

FInd a magazine that interests you and analyze the article. the purpose here is to demostrate just how varied discourse communities can be and that these differences can be clearly seen in the authors use of language, sources and tone...
What the heck does that mean....

Answer 1

You are probably wondering what a "discourse community" is. Check out the wiki article at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_Community

That should give you a start