HW 1/30

John Swales is professor of linguistics at the University of Michigan. He got his PHD from Cambridge. He is known for his work on genre analysis, and rhetoric analysis. He was born in 1938 in the U.K(Wikipedia).
I think that he imagined college students to be reading his text, since he worked at a college. I also think he imagined other professional colleagues to read his text, and then they would share it with students.
I think the issue this text is talking about is the difference between a discourse community and a speech community. The issue is also that the readers do not fully know what a discourse community is.
I think that Swales thought the gap was that his readers thought that discourse communities and speech communities were the same. I also think his readers did not know all of the characteristics of a discourse community. The characteristics include; common goals, intercommunication, genres, a specific abbreviation name, changing memberships, and sharing information and feedback.