Reading Response (Branick)

In his article, "Coaches Can Read, Too: An Ethnographic Study of a Football Coaching Discourse Community," Sean Branick explains how sports, more specifically football is an unexplored discourse communitity in which coaches and players not only have to read play books, scouting reports and play-calling sheets but they also need to read people. To support his theory he presents the characteristics explained by Swales in "The Concept of Discourse Community, like goals, lexis and genres, among others. 

Branick also support the idea that literacy in not only about reading and writing. He argues that football literacy is formed by interpersonal literacy like reading players and knowing how to deal with them, and situational literacy like reading the game in the moment so they know how to react.

I like this reading because I was able to relate it with the sport that I play and as I was reading it, I was analyzing my own sport and comparing what I though with what Branick thinks.