1. An Overview

2.  What is the most important or most useful thing you’ve learned about who you are as a reader, as a writer, and as astudent?  What kinds of connections can you make to the readings and writing you’ve done in the past? What connections can you see between the readings?  Text-to-self  Text-to-world  Text-to-text

3.  What are the six defining characteristics that Swale’s uses to identify a Discourse Community?

4.  “A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals” (471).

5.  “A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members” (471).

6.  “A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback” (472).

7.  “A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims” (472).

8.  “In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has acquired some specific lexis” (473).

9.  “A discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise” (473).

10.  Goals  Intercommunication  Participation  Genres  Lexis  Expertise

11.  Goals  Intercommunication  Participation  Genres  Lexis  Expertise

12.  Goals  Intercommunication  Participation  Genres  Lexis  Expertise

13.  Goals  Intercommunication  Participation  Genres  Lexis  Expertise

14.  Goals  Intercommunication  Participation  Genres  Lexis  Expertise

15.  Goals  Intercommunication  Participation  Genres  Lexis  Expertise

16.  Goals  Intercommunication  Participation  Genres  Lexis  Expertise

17.  Goals  Intercommunication  Participation  Genres  Lexis  Expertise

18.  Goals  Intercommunication  Participation  Genres  Lexis  Expertise

19.  Swales argues that it is possible to participate in a discourse community without being fully assimilated to it. What does this mean?

20.  Consider a time when you participated in a discourse community but resisted it or were not assimilated into it. What happened?

21.  Do you understand your own reading and writing experiences differently now that you’ve read Swales’ description of how discourse communities work?  How can this understanding help you navigate new discourse communities in the future?