January 11th homework

In his article "Intertexuality and the Discourse Community", Porter attempts to explain intertextuality and how it connects to "discourse community" and its "implications for composition." He argues that "intertexuality suggests that our goal should be to help students learn to write for the discourse communities they choose to join" (pg.94) because by doing this them students can learn what is expected of them and use that to help them in writing.

GRR
When I am writing I get my ideas from the different ideas that are said in class and by my teachers. For advice and feedback I like to ask my classmates and friends and professors. For assistance I like to look at other peoples work to get an idea of how I want to set mine up or build my own ideas off of.


QD
2. I do not think that intertext makes individual writers less important because even though the texts are built on each other and refering to each other I think the individual still is saying something important and maybe saying it in a different way.
3.I think Porter calls antonomous writers "romantic" because they are not writing in a "social context" or "community" writers.
4. Before reading this article I assumed that writing should be evaluated based on what is told is needed in your writing and showing your understanding for what your saying which is how my writing has been evaluated in the past.
5.I think that based on his idea of intertextuality that no article is original so in that case his article isn't original either.
6.According to Porter the harm in believing that writing is individual, isolated, and heroic is that all people when writing are borrowing ideas from other writers so therefore the writing can not be those things.


MM
Porters study has changed my view of writing a little but I still believe that people can write things that are original. If I adopted his notion of writers and writing it may change the way I write.


I thought that this article was interesting to here Porters view on intertexuality and it pointed out many things that I have never thought about before. The article may not be helpful to me because I am not sure if I completely agree with what Porter is saying. The ideas that Porter is pointing out compare to my own experiences because I am sure that I have written things and he could point out the same things in the things in my writing as he did in the examples in the book.