Expansion on Unanswered Questions from Last Time

Define: Discourse Community:
"Identity Kit" -- comes with an appropriate costume and instructions on how to act and talk as a member of a specific group. EX: "Being trained as an engineer, one learns how to speak, think, and act like an engineer."

In my own case: I am a member of the Libertarian Party. The instructions as to how to act and talk are, in short, that one that is a member of my party must be well informed as to the political issues of our time, and must view them through the prism of ideals that embody the Libertarian party-- namely, that individual liberty in all aspects of American life should be the foremost concern of all Americans in how and what they allow their government to accomplish any ends, good or bad. As such, a Libertarian is expected to be rather vocal in their critique of the more vanilla flavors of the other major parties, in that they are drawn much more along very central lines and, by and large, never really backup their claimed ideals with action. To "speak" like a Libertarian is to be speak (or write) with a tone of revolution that, while restrained and humble, must be able to convey the idea that we live in a nation with a broken political system and that most of the problems the average American faces are by and large the result of their own cowardice in continually propping up a failed structure of bi-partisan politics.

Social Perspective:
The most important suggestion to ME given by Faigley is that a writer must not only understand or cognitively attend to how he or she will represent themselves in text, they must also understand how this representation will be fluid based on changing situations within and without a given social group.

This, as well as the other suggestions will affect a PWs work in that it will certainly alter their thought processes in representing their thoughts and personality through writing, as well as altering the content of their texts by giving the PW more tools to create a more sharp, more effective piece of prose for a given audience or community.