Wardle

In the article, Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces, Elizabeth Wardle introduces the concept of tools when it comes to discourse communities. She does a study on a new employee who just graduated college named Alan. Alan see's himself above everyone else, and what Wardle does is kind of negative. She says that Alan is a tool and that some members are persceived not as a member but as a tool as she states. Alan is in a different discourse community and doesn't think he needs to change his ways for this discourse community. 

This work is very much based on the work of Swales and Gee, use their idea of discourse community/Discourse. This is talking about discourse communities just as Swales and Gee do. But Wardle gives out an example of a discourse community and ethnography. Swales has to do more with genre in a discourse community. Swale argues that genre is what defines the differences between each discourse community. Gee trys to state the concept of what a discourse community is.