hey,
i thought it was interesting how you really worked with the examples in order to prove that the specific writer's discourse community actually counted as one according to what we have read. the fact that you pointed out that both the examples given by these authors are not conventional discourse communities i thought was nice. A good question to think about is why don't people assume these communities to be discourse, why do we always assume it has to be a workplace? maybe there is something in the preconceived idea of a discourse community that right away makes us think— workplace. I think it is interesting that you chose these two pieces because i know that you wrote your initial blog post on your work at Adventure Land, which is also not your typical discourse community. therefore i think you will be able to pull a lot of information out of these pieces for your midterm project. I think something interesting to think about also is that the reason that these examples seem so thought out is because they authors were a part of the community and that gives them a different insight rather than just someone who is collecting data for a project. this is a point you brought up, but i think you could really use this in your piece to your advantage, it proves how much of an insider/outsider you are in a community. One last thing, is that i didn't find it very clear exactly what the authors described discourse community to be about. meaning, what specific things do they think the community needs to have go through in order to be considered a discourse community. really interesting job!
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