If you want to get into the cool club, you have to be tested to make sure you’re going to fit in well with the already existing members. Sometimes that means the members start looking at you from a distance at first without you knowing it. It’s the best way to see how you truly interact with people, surroundings and in this case, literacy discourse. This is a good way to test you without know you’re being tested. It’s a “no pressure” situation. But there is pressure. Tons of pressure. Don’t look now but you’re being watched to see how you react to this post. They’re going to decide if you’re “club material”. I’ll put in a good word for you. Only time will tell whether you doing all the right things at this moment…if not, I’m not sure this will work out for you. I’m sure you’re fine though.
That’s not a situation you’d want to be caught up in. That’s what I took away from this “right time, right place, right people” situation. While it is beneficial to have people of similar backgrounds in the same discourse community, it couldn’t hurt to mix things up in my opinion. Why not take someone who is at a lower level and throw him or her in with a higher-level literary discourser. Or in some cases I’ve seen, mix two types of artists together. One who is stronger in 3-D art and one that is stronger in 2-D art. Give them an assignment. They may surprise you. I did a project with two of my buddies sophomore year where we were to take “paper materials” and make some sort of 3-D project with it. I’m mostly structured in the drawing and my two friends were stronger in the 3-D aspect, ceramics and what have you. Well we made a pirate ship and a sea serpent and it turned out amazing. The work load was pretty evenly divided up between the three of us, so it wasn’t like someone was doing more or less than the others. I drew up some ideas as to how it would look and the other two guys led the creating process. I did what I was told and they did their thing, and it turned out pretty impressive. My point is, mixing up backgrounds can turn out to be a good thing. Don’t make the community so exclusive.
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