This
quote intrigued me and made me think. All texts are interdependent and relate
to other texts in some form.
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“Not
infrequently, and perhaps ever and always, texts refer to other texts and in
fact rely on them for their meaning” (87).
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I
thought that it was interesting to find out that Jefferson’s writing in the
Declaration of Independence wasn’t actually his. Jefferson borrowed most of
his traces to make him seem like a creative writer.
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“An
examination of three sample texts will illustrate the various facets of
intertexuality. The first, the Declaration of Independence, is popularly
viewed as the work of Thomas Jefferson. Yet if we examine the text closely in
its rhetorical milieu, we see that Jefferson was author only in the very loosest
of senses” (89
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Summary:
In his
article, "Intertextuality and the Discourse Community, Porter
attempts to show that ideas originality and plagiarism don’t actually show how
texts work and how writers write. He also goes on by telling student writers
the two key concepts of writing are intertexuality and the discourse community.
Intertextuality is the idea that all texts contain “traces” of other texts. A
discourse community is a group that communicates through a common interest and
has a regulated discourse. Intertextuality should help students learn to write
for the discourse communities they choose to join.
Synthesis:
Porter's
article, "Intertextuality and the Discourse Community" is very
similar to Kleine’s article, “What Is It We Do When We Write Articles Like This
One.” Both these articles deal with writing and how everything has been written
about. Kleine talks about hunting and gathering information before you start
writing to find your audience and Porter does the same thing by finding a discourse
community.
Thoughts:
I thought that this article was
difficult to understand and was not able to fully understand the main concepts.
The main points Porter made about intertexuality and the discourse community were
interesting to read about and could be useful to students.
I also had some trouble following certain parts of the essay, but you seemed to get the general message. We should be able to use other's ideas,as long as we don't copy word for word. So good job!
ReplyDeleteI also found this article to be a little hard to understand, but I did like how Porter explained what a discourse community was. I'm still not sure if I fully understand the intertextuality part. Good synthesis and summary!
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