Writing Across the University: (response) Academic Discourse as a Conversation

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Within this academic community, we as as the rising leaders of this world have to face the uncertainty of rules in which we must follow through the years of education. I myself have experienced this in high school where the "typical 5 paragraph" essay would work in one class, but it would not cease to be allowed within another. Teachers are weird in that sense. Actually its more the educational system we as the country have bestowed upon the children of this world. "Why make rules if were just going to break them?"

I am not saying rules are not needed, I am just referring them to be useful in a discourse of Academic knowledge. In other words, I understand what Fioana Glade is talking about rules in which we were brought up to know and show. However, every year something new is learned, something new is changed, and once again we all start over to gain the assumptions of (for example) what a good essay is or how to write the perfect paper.

The example Glade gives in the article is very insightful because I can greatly relate it to a current situation in which I am in right now. For my HAHS class we have to write a research paper on a certain topic related to our major. For every paper I have written in the past I have normally followed the guidelines for a MLA citation. However, for this paper, we have to complete the citations in APA format. There are different sets of rules for each of these disciplines and it confuses me to the point of questioning why we even have two different types of cautions.

In the end a discourse community would be nothing without the people in it. Readers and writers themselves contribute the knowledge they have to guide the people of this world to a better and adverse area. The social form between people contributes to the idea of using reading and writing as encouragement within our discourse community.