Ann Johns mainly focuses on academic discourse communities in her writing. Her main idea is her own ideas and thoughts of her discourse community, which is academic’s. she uses evidence from other authors to explain the community of academia. She introduces the term “communities of practice” and defines this as a collection of people in the same community. She explains communities and membership. An example of this would be cultural communities that may include religious, tribal, social, or economic experiences that “may be central to an individual’s daily life”. Johns’ goal is to get students to move away from a certain academic community that they have on campus and extend the communities in order to get to know a person. Learn a person’s goals, experiences, such things that shape their lives or have impacted them. She thus explains the different communities one may be apart of; social, political, and recreational communities, professional communities, academic communities, and language, texts, and values communities. I am a member of the republican party for political communities, I am apart of the basketball players in recreational communities, I am a student apart of the professional communities, I am apart of the pre-law program for the academic communities, and I am apart of the English speaking portion of the world for the language communities.
