1.) In a discourse community the first thing that is set is a goal for the whole group a public goal to join the group together. For an example of my personal experience this way is my basketball team sets a goal at the beginning of our season of how many wins we want to get and how we want to get better. The next concept of a discourse community is to have communication and across the whole group wether it be meeting or newsletters or any other type of communication.  In ERH-101 we use this blog along with our emails to communicate with each other and discuss what we are doing in class.  To be part of a discourse community you cannot just receive the newsletters you have to be an active member.  So to relate to myself if I am on a sports team I can’t say I am a true part of the team unless I actually attend practices because without practice I would never play and then end up not feeling as part either.  A discourse community uses multiple genres to accomplish what is needed they do not limit the grouping to on area or genre.  At VMI to teach the rats the ways to do things and not do things here they use the rat bible which is a book each rat must have to learn the ropes.  Each discourse community might have there own use of terms that people not a part of the community will not understand.  Again At VMI there are a lot of terms that most people who have not spent time in this community would have no clue of what they were saying for example freshman are called a rat mass until breakout.  Discourse communities only last as long as the members stay in as expert or novice.  For example in a sport if you have a bunch of players and no coach then you lose the organization of the team and become just a gathering of athletes with no expert or leader.