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Editing link: Discourse community

The language used by discourse communities can be described as a register or diatype, and members generally join a discourse community through training or personal persuasion. This is in contrast to the speech community (or the ’native discourse community,’ to use Bizzell's term), who speak a language or dialect inherited by birth or adoption. '''Ideas from speech communities and interpretive communities were what lead to the emergence of the notion of discourse communities. '''

James Porter defined the discourse community as: "a local and temporary constraining system, defined by a body of texts (or more generally, practices) that are unified by a common focus. A discourse community is a textual system with stated and unstated conventions, a vital history, mechanisms for wielding power, institutional hierarchies, vested interests, and so on." Porter held the belief that all new ideas added to a discourse community had an impact on the group, changing it forever.

  These people begin to adapt to standards of that discourse community. However, involvement in one discourse community does not hinder participation in other groups based on a pursuit of a common goal. In some cases, under specific standards, traces of discourse interference may appear from other standards. '''Being a member of a discourse community is not required, we have the choice to join or not. '''

Regarding contemporary rhetorical communities, Zappen, et al., states, "Thus a contemporary rhetorical community is less a collection of people joined by shared beliefs and values than a public space or forum that permits these people to engage each other and form limited or local communities of belief." Incorporating this factor suggests an introduction to a democratic system in discourse communities and has also been educationally termed "Accountable Talk" by researchers, indicating the diversity of communities.

The term discourse community started to lose favor among scholars in the early 2000's, with community of practice being used in place of discourse community.  Swales suggested that discourse communities have shared goals, yet academic communities do not have meaningful shared goals. Discourse community is not yet well defined, which raises questions that could be the cause of the terms fall from favor.

Review by Bella and Anhella
The sentences are well written, but one of the sources doesn't seem like it has a lot to offer which was used for sentence one. Maybe try to find another source that is more reliable. The only suggest we make is rewrite sentence one.

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