February 22nd homework

Summary
In her writing "Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice," Ann Johns talks about "communities of practice" and how they are similar to discourse communities. She discuses different nonacademic communities in order to help the readers understand before she talks about being a member of a academic communities. She argues that being a part of a discourse community has complications because of many different things that she outlines in the writing.
QD
1. The first thing is cost, people need to make major trade-offs when wanting to fit into a discourse community. The next thing she said was Issues of Authority, people may believe the community should be equal and not agree with the the people above them. Third she discusses Conventions and Anticonventionalism, this is a issue because changing things or doing them different can been seen as a problem and as breaking the rules. The last one is Dialogue and Critique, disagreements among member is the problem.
2. As you are getting older your life changes in many ways and eventually it is completely different and you view things in a different way. I do not know any historical examples that I could use for this but i could think of after taken certain classes in school your views on certain things can change once you learn more about them.
3. No, I do not believe that learning to write in a new discourse community effected any of these things for me, I think this hasn't happened because the only thing that has happened in a new discourse for me is that I learned to improve what I had already known.
4. The only thing that I believe that these things change they way you see certain things. I don't think it changed who a person is I think it might just help them improve their self and knowledge.
5. This is really the first class that I have had to write papers for so far in college and I think that the writing have challenged me to go outside of the norm for me so I don't see myself having  much authority. 
6. This is considered a "minefeild" because most of the time when you are breaking rules you don't know the result that you are going to get in the end. It could go either way a teacher may like that you changed things around and another teacher may be mad at you for this and not give you credit. I personally have never been punished because I have never really done this.
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This can help because I now knowing the different things that she talked about can help me to know if I can successfully be a part of a discourse community.
Reflection
I thought the things that she talked about were interesting because she had a lot of good supported things to say. This will be helpful to me if I plan to become part of a new discourse community. I agree with the things that she says in this because she has good examples and reasons for each.