Swales response

BEFORE YOU READ:
I felt out of place in the first week of college. I lived in a new town, room, and with strangers, and I had no idea what to think of what my classes or professors would be like. Would I find my way around campus? Should I go out on the weekends? What if I can't find decent friends? I quickly tried to get involved and found people that I had more that one class with and we would walk together. Also the people I live with became very close with everyone and we hang out all the time. I feel more at home in Athens now, and laugh about how unsure I was.

SUMMARY:
Swales' article talks about what makes up a discourse community. He talks about how we join them and how it becomes the bases for our lives and actions. "Community involves discourse and discourse involves community" page 469, makes you understand that the two are interchangeable. Swales also talks about the criteria for a DC, giving us six characteristics that id the communities. He talks about how they vary in type and activities, and that you can have temporary membership to them, you do not always have to be involved in everything they do.

SYNTHESIS:
Swales's article compares to Porters' obviously with the topic of discourse community. Although Swales goes into more detail about what exactly makes up a community and their development levels. Also compares to Malcolm X with talking about the lexus and that compares to Malcolm's sponsorship with why people learn or join communities. Also compares to Gee with Discourse community and and both mention how people need to belong to the community and meet requirements.

QD:
5.) My learning community that I belong to is my mod. We are all here to get degrees and hopefully use them to get good jobs in the future. We have a lexus and genre that is affected differently be each of us as individuals and we come from different backgrounds and different upbringings.

6.) Recently my roommate began having problems and I thought that moving out would help things, at least let me be happier. The people in my mod held a meeting between me and my roommate to work things out. I didn't want to talk things out I just wanted to leave, but by talking and getting things out on the table we worked things out and got back on the same page. Now we are working towards making things work between us again and the people in my mod are happier knowing that I'm staying and happy.

THOUGHTS:
I really didn't like his article I felt that he was very condescending  Also I feel that sometimes communities don't meet every requirement but that doesn't mean that it is any less of a discourse community. I did agree however with how he said you can be a partial participant and not always be involved with the community. I liked how his article was similar to Gee's as well.