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but has been established for many years. While many people stereotype Greek life as
superficial and basic, I have found that it’s much more than going on date functions and hosting
fun events. I have learned how cutthroat and intense it is to account for over 200 people. The
key things that I have connected the importance of writing and rhetoric with sororities as a
whole is the use of genre and specific lexis. I have found four articles that demonstrate the
many different avenues of communication between members of the sorority and examples of
words and phrases specialized to the particular organization. Both of these writing related
topics are necessary in order for the chapter to function on a daily basis.
Teri Kline Henley (2001) Utilizing Research to Develop a Plan to Gain Members and Increase
Morale in a University Sorority, Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, 8:4, 103-
112, DOI: 10.1300/J054v08n04_09. This article goes into detail about one genre of
evening, this is where the president and her executive board sit upon the entire chapter
and reflect on the last week. This is also a platform to make announcements of future
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also touches on the many ways the members of a sorority communicate with one
another in order to get things done. It is required for each member to hold some sort of
position, big or small. In order for a position head to pass on information that is too
trivial for chapter meetings, the sorority will use the app Group Me. This allows for word
Mongell, S., & Roth, A. E. (1991). Sorority rush as a two-sided matching mechanism. The
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lays out all things recruitment, which can be very confusing to anyone not familiar with
Greek life. Certain phrases like ‘rush’ and ‘PNM’ are catered toward this specific
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gives journal entries of a girl going through the rush process, and she uses a phrase
called “going suicide”. This refers to a potential new member who is dead set on a
particular sorority and discounts all of the others. This type of lexis sounds very extreme