Wardle

Identify, Authority, and learning to Write in New Workplaces
Elizabeth Wardle Pg. 520

Before You Read
-exams used to be test
-semester used to be quarters
-going to class used to be going to school

Summary
In Wardle's article, "Identify, Authority, and learning to Write in New Workplaces", she is very interested with how people learn to write.  She talks about differebt discourse communities and how adults moving through different discourses learn.  She talks about he struggle with finding register or lexis for her writing and how others have a hard time fitting into new discourses.  This article was a result of a study so there are many examples in the article.

Synthesis
This article talks so much about discourse communities and finding your own discourse.  I think this article relates to Gee, Glenn, Swales, and Allen.  It relates to all of those articles because of how much it talks about being in a discourse and the struggles behind finding your own discourse community.

Responses	Quotes
This quote was in the very last paragraph of the article and I liked it because it showed what Alan had learned.	"Alan's example illustrates that learning to write in new communities entails more then learning discrete sets of skills or improving cognitive abilities." (533)
Shows that many discourses could have afforded Allan.	"A number of discourse conventions existed in the department that could have afforded Alan further authority." (529)
Shows where Allan was in the discourse because he had authority.	"Allan's sense of his level of authority was evident in the way he talked about the faculty members in the department." (528)
He left what his previous position was because it didn't allow him enough responsibility.	"Alan's sense of what it meant to fill a support staff position was very different from the faculty's sense." (528)
I like this quote because it kind of tells us how we should understand writing and how we view learning.	"If we understand writing as one tool among many through which knowledge, identity, and authority and continually negotiated, then we must view learning to write in new ways as a complex and often messy network of tool-mediated human relationships best explored in terms of the social and cultural practices that people bring to their shared uses of tools." (526)

Thoughts
I really liked this article.  It was very much liked everything we have been reading lately.  Talks mostly about discourses.  I found it to be very informative.