Swales and Gee both have ideas on the same subject, discourse communities. Both authors have their own 'rules' or 'guidelines' on the subject and about what defines a community. Both agree that you have to be accepted into your community. They also both agree that sponsors teach you your literacies.
Swales and Gee have different ideas about the characteristics that define a discourse. Swales believes you can have many discourses. Gee believes you have one primary discourse, that changes, and several secondary discourses. Swales says you can go back to any literacy you have learned, but Gee disagrees. He says once you have learned a literacy it is with you always, never going back to that level. Gee believes the way you act, speak, and dress matter in a discourse community, and Swales does not put that into factor with his guidelines.
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