A discourse analysis of the 12/20/22 Moscow Homicide Update using Bucholtz & Hall (presented to you by a writing and rhetoric major with an honors project in discourse analysis)

Basically someone who has an endless pit of academic writing knowledge applying it to common written items given to the public (in this case a homicide press release)

When people hear “discourse analysis” it sounds daunting, confusing, and way too technical. When I started going to college I heard things like “theory” “praxis” and “discourse” along with too many types of analyses to count. Writing and sociology were a stressful combination to choose when it came to my major and minor. Alas, here I am using this insan…