In my opinion Swales article is towards students in college like myself to understand a discourse community. The six characteristics that Swales describe in the book were difficult for me to understand but the first characteristic is a community that has common goals to achieve for example my goal is to graduate from UTEP. The second characteristic is that each community has its own ways to communicate for example an email, text message, or even a call. The third characteristic that Swales describes is a mechanism where feedback is given, for example professors give students feedback through blackboard. The fourth characteristic is where the community owns its own one ore more genre to develop new goals in the future, for example biology books
