Blog 5

We have decided using our "theories" that smaller groups have a better chance at being a discourse community than the bigger groups, in our class discussion.  Looking at this data, it shows that Swales' second and third features are the weakest features for these communities.  The two features have to do with communication meaning that the communities need to come up with better ways to communicate within their discourse community so that each member knows what other members know and are able to communicate with each other.  Why I believe smaller groups have a better chance with the two features is because there may be an easier way to connect with fewer members than it is trying to communicate with a larger group. Organization is very important when it comes to get members to communicate with each other and organization seems to be easiest when in smaller groups so for communication to work in larger groups, organization needs to come in play.  Other data that we can take that would help our data to be "true" is to talk to other members of each discourse communities, including the leaders of the group.  The data that can help is to find out what exactly each community has a problem with when it comes to communication and also to ask members what they think can make the communication be better within the group.