Swales and Gee
What is useful in Swales and Gee’s works in our paper?
Our paper is basically about discourse communities in our field of study. We are reading and analyzing an article, because it is supposed to directly relate to what we want to do, and maybe even whatever we want to specialize in (in our field of study). Using whichever article we choose, we can find some goal or issue that an association or organization in our field is focusing on. These associations/organizations are discourse communities, and using Swale’s six characteristics of what a discourse community is, we can further explain why they can be defined as one. We can also talk more about what the members of these groups are like, and compare them to how they compare to Gee’s opinions on how members of a discourse community should be.
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