Readinag Response #8

Summary:

In his article "Intertextuality and The Discourse Community," James E. Porter attempts to explain to the reader the concept of Intertextuality. He starts off by explaining to us how Thomas Jefferson used intertextuality to write The Declaration of Independence. He argues that in order to produce an original piece of work you can not have any traces of other works in it.

Synthesis:

The reading that this is similar to would be Kleine's article because in his article he talks about how you have to do research to back up your point. In doing so, that would lead into the article about intertextuality because intertextuality deals with having a point that leaves traces from other works.

Before you read:

1. The difference between and author and a writer would be that a writer is someone who comes up with a completely original idea while an author is someone who uses someone else's idea to make something different. You would choose the term author to describe someone who leaves traces of other people's work, while a writer would not.

Questions for Discussion and Journaling:

4. The way Porter argues the way writing is evaluating writing should be "acceptability" is not really different from the way I evaluate  writing. His reasons to me seem very clear, and accurate to me and how I write. In my past writings I have evaluated is that I pick about what I want to write about and what interests me. I feel like I am always questioning myself when I write to make sure my writing has meaning, clear citation, and its originality just like Porter.

5. I believe Porter is just stating facts, and yes it does relfect-or fail to reflect- the principles he is writing about. He is talking about how people can be original with how the reader and writer originally perceives  the reading. 

Applying and Exploring Ideas:
 
2. A commercial that I have recently watched would be an Audi commercial. In the commercial it was about these group of people who looked like they were having a party but were vampires so they were drinking blood instead of alcohol. Then this guy driving an audi came up and the lights on the car were so bright that all of the vampires disappeared. The texts I found represented in it were that of Twilight or any vampire movies in general. The cultural intertext I found represented in it would be the fad of Vampires. Lately, there has been a rise in the interest of vampires. With the Twilight series out, and the TV shows like True Blood, there has been a lot of things related to vampires.

Meta Moment:

Porter's study changed the way that I imagine writers and writing because he talks about how writers take ideas from other writers to create something new and that is a completely different look on how I pictured writers before I read this article. Adopting his notion of writers and writing would change the way I write because I would be more likely inclined to get ideas from other people and making it my own.