In this assignment, I was focusing on who different discourse communities impact my values and how I communicate with people. I mentioned my two distinctly different high schools back home while also mentioning how VMI was a jump. For the most part, I was happy with what I wrote about and happy with how it turned out. I made sure that Swales was repeatedly mentioned throughout the paper. But more importantly, Swales was the base of the introduction or thesis statement. Allowing the reader to understand how I am analyzing these discourse communities. As all three examples are similar, a differentiating factor is needed to show why a novice is more suited to situation ‘x.’ However, what I needed to improve was providing more examples and polishing the work itself. What I mean by polishing is making sure everything is in MLA and that the citing is appropriate. I had the bulk of what I wanted to state but it was a little rough around the edges. A step in the right direction of being a capable writer. Moreover, according to the instructor I could’ve implemented more examples across my paper. I only mentioned examples to prove the main points of my thesis. But I could’ve been better in how I set up my paragraphs to fully emersed the reader. Especially being from a foreign country. I was focused on getting my point across without really understanding how or if the instructor would get my point of view. Examples could’ve helped the point of view get across to the reader, but I believed that for the most part, the paper was very impartial and didn’t possess any culturally specific words.

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