He thinks there are multiple ways to describe the qualities of a discourse community: you have to have an open mind to be part of it, you have to be able to Accept the fact that many ideas will come from many different people and belong to very different genres. Swales also explains how communication is essential when it comes to being part of a speech community. You must have a passion to help and a drive to make things better in life. I agree with what Swales has to say. I think he makes a lot of logical points about the speech community and your opinion is based on how you look at it. It all depends on the people in the community, if they try hard they will succeed and if they don't they will succeed..