Wardle

Before you read:
Since I have been at college I feel that my identity has changed a little bit, but it is not an extreme change. I have become more independent and I have a learned a lot of new things through my academics. I was very sheltered when I was living at home and now I am around a lot of different people and have been faced with a lot of new experiences.

Summary:
In Wardle's article, "Identify, Authority, and learning to Write in New Workplaces", she talks about how adults learn to write and how they learn this from different learning communities. In Wardle's article it is based on the result of a study and how things can come into conflict with a discourse community.

Synthesis:
Wardle's article can easily relate to Gee, Swales, and Porter's articles. These threee article all connect to Wardle's article because they all have to do with discourse communities and what a discourse community consists of and how to fit into discourse communities.

QD:
4. I do not think people are making conscious choices when they use language. Some people may do this, but I think for the most part people do not have to think when they use language because they are trained with how they use language and know what to say most the time.
 
Thoughts:
I liked this article alot because it also gave good information on discourse communities and was easy to understand and read. I liked the examples she used in her article. It made it more intriguing and helped me better understand what was going on. This article will also help with the next project on discourse communities. 

Response	Quote
This quote makes a good point about how important it is to write in the workplace. Writing in the workplace is different than writing academically.	“As composition widens its focus beyond academic writing, it is increasingly important to consider what it means to write in the workplace.”
I liked this quote a lot because sometimes we can go away from activities that we value a lot. We must stay true to our identities and not let other things get in the way of family and other things that are important to us.	“We must also consider whether expanding involvement in one system forces us away from other activity systems we value—away from “activity systems of family, neighborhood, and friends that construct ethic, racial, gender, and class.”
This shows how different discourse communities can be.	"Alan's sense of what it meant to fill a support staff position was very different from the faculty's sense."
This shows how helpful discourse communities can be to further ourselves.	"A number of discourse conventions existed in the department that could have afforded Alan further authority."
I liked this quote because it explains how to learn to write in different communities and what you need to do this.	“Allan’s example illustrates that learning to write in new communities entails more than learning discrete sets of skills or improving cognitive abilities.”