  In this article, we prove convergence of the weakly penalized adaptive
discontinuous Galerkin methods. Unlike other works, we derive the contraction
property for various discontinuous Galerkin methods only assuming the
stabilizing parameters are large enough to stabilize the method. A central idea
in the analysis is to construct an auxiliary solution from the discontinuous
Galerkin solution by a simple post processing. Based on the auxiliary solution,
we define the adaptive algorithm which guides to the convergence of adaptive
discontinuous Galerkin methods.
