Reasons why Swales articles sucks:
- It’s boring
- It’s too long
- There is excessive wording, trying to make himself sound intelligent
- Speaking within and only to linguistic discourse community.
- It is hard to follow
- The intended audience is not us
- Rhetoric is a way to make a persuasive argument.
- I think the intended audience are groups or organizations that are perfect examples of a discourse community. He gives an example of what a discourse community could be on page 8. The description he gave lead me to believe he is talking to those that are thinking about forming a group. Fellow colleagues
- The issue is the lack of a clear definition of discourse community.
- He thinks that the audience does not know what a discourse community is.
- The gap: Not knowing what a discourse community really is.
- This essay fills the gap by actually going step by step to explain the definition of discourse community.
- The audience are those who are also linguists
- The danger is that it is only directed to a specific group of people and instead of multiple groups of people.
Trials and Tribulations 