Who is the writer of this article (like more than his name–what important, pertinent info can you found out about him online)?
John studies things related to english and different genres for academic and information science puposes. That is his thing!
Who do you think he imagined as his perfect audience of readers?
I think students and tutors are his best students as his work has the exact amount of deepness that a student should know in English according to me. Also, for the professors he is one of the best resources to teach.
What do you think, in your own words, is the issue this article is trying to address?
I think this article is trying to make us understand the depth of english and using the language for many different genres and segregating it precisely for a specific individual.
In your own words, what do you think that Swales imagined as the gap between what he had found out about discourse community versus what his readers already knew about the concept of discourse community?
That his readers werent easily able to relate to his work as it had to broken down into easy stuff for them to understand and apply it in their study.
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