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This article seeks to examine how the West, as a concept, is represented in papers written by students. Studying the journals, it is assumed, is essential
for reaching an understanding of characteristics of a portion of social and political forces. Thus, the article aims at an understanding as to the semantic
connotations of the West and attempts to formulate various discourses formed around the West's concept. students papers published in the period
of 1378-1382 (the Iranian calendar) are the corpus of our data. The theoretical framework is Michel Foucault's discourse, and that of Edward
Said's Orientalism. The procedure used here is discourse analysis.
The findings are indicative of three discourses of "fundamentalism",
"exotism", and "nationalism", each representing the West differently. Innate differences of these discourses are attributed to their different primary
presuppositions