Recently, there has been a lot of interest in discourse communities. According to James Porter, "a discourse community is a group of people bound by a common interest who communicate through channels and discourse is regulated (Couzelis, Isip, Adkins 12 and Porter 38-39).  John Swales, however, states that a community can only be a true discourse community if they meet six requirements: they have to share clearly stated goals; they have to use a mechanism of communication; they offer feedback and information; utilize one or more genres of text, the group uses specific lexis; and they have old members with new ones (Couzelis, Isip, Adkins 12 and Swales 471-473). Under these guidelines, Mike Rose's mother Rosie is in a discourse community because of her job as a waitress. Waitresses form a discourse community because they have common goals such as satisfying customers, wanting to make tips, and trying to do their work in a very effective way. They need to learn how to do their tasks in quick ways. Rose's mother affirms this when she states that she learned "to work smart  and to "make every move count  (Rose 443). With that said, they have common goals and they communicate uniquely in a way that those without a similar title cannot understand them. The phrase "fry four on two  and the word "racetrack  are examples of something that waiters/waitresses, according to Mike Rose, say to one another that likely only those with their occupation understand (Rose 442). It's worth noting that work ethic has no impact on a discourse community; waiters, although they share interests and speak a language that no one else may understand, are only different than ordinary people in some ways. People, despite possibly sharing common interests, cannot think alike because no one person has a similar thought process to another. There are counteractions to this, however. Firstly, the group of waiters/waitresses easily mixes experienced members of