Swales article sucks because the length of it is very long and unnecessary. He talks about the concept of discourse community in detailed view, but his article is all common sense. He uses big words for an article that doesn’t need words like the ones he uses, plus he tries to sound smart.
Swales is a Linguists Professor so his intended readers are his fellow colleagues, but also Linguists students. I believe this is the audience since he has a Ph.D and also speaks about a topic that concerns the public. The issue is the problems within a discourse communities. Swales explains what includes in a group. He believes that a community will divide if too many different opinions are shared, this is a reason why the intended audience is the public.
2. In my opinion, this piece fills out the gap by speaking of the truth, sometimes we need reminders in this world realize what we’re doing that is wrong. Yes his text is common sense and boring but it’s an important reminder for everyone.
4. The danger of an essay like this is it can be taken the wrong way. Usually when there is 2 groups of people one has to be right but in order to be fair both share an equal amount of power so if the wrong group gains more power it will cause discourse communities to divide even more.
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