Homework #16

Summary to Wardle
In her article "Identity, Authority, & Learning to Write in New Workplaces" Elizabeth Wardle wants to learn how adults write who move among a variety of discourse communities. She discusses the struggles of people learning how to enculturate into a variety of discourse communities. Wardle follows a students fresh out of college who heads into the workplace and is struggling with joining the business discourse community in which he now works. She thinks of a discourse community more as an activity system than a discourse community.
Questions 3-7
3. I don't think that the community had positive results because people are skeptical to newcomers and there ideas because they are not a well known member of the community. When you enter into a new discourse community no matter what your ideas are people are not willing to listen. he If  Allan would have approached the situation by being willing to adapt into the ways of the community the members within the community may have been more willing to listen to Allan's ideas.
4. I agree that it is possible to make conscious choices when they use language without thinking about it.
5. I agree more with Gee because when Gee discusses discourse communities he explains that is possible to be excepted into many discourse communities you just have to be willing to understand the variety of lexsis and genres throughout the many communities you may join. Where with Wardle's story with Allan he was not willing to adapt into new discourse communities he just wanted you to except him as he was wasn't willing to change.
6. I agree that people like Allan are used as tools because authors can compare stories with a variety of people they interview so that they have a variety of material to compare together.
7. Well the person who assigned this article was my english professor Mr. Whicker but I can't think of a time where he lost his authority through his linguistic actions.
AEI
To have authority over texts means that people believe what you are writing and that they view you as a credible source. To have authority within your discourse community means that the community members value what you are saying. I think that with my writing and my leadership within my community I think my writing is good but I wouldn't say its always the best and my leadership within my community is excellent. A discourse community that I gained authority in is Dance I attended the same studio for 15 years and the younger girls were always looking up to the older girls also I was captain for competition. To be at the mercy of another person within the discourse community can be a good or bad thing based on the community you could view it as a learning experience but if you are at the mercy of a discourse community with poor leadership it would be an awful experience.
Response to Wardle
I found this article very interesting and somewhat easy to read, it was very easy to understand what she was saying unlike the past few articles discussing similar topics. The information I learned is very valuable. I feel as if I understand activity systems a lot easier than I understood the many examples of a discourse community it just made more sense to me.