Porter

In his article, James Porter talks about intertextuality. He basically argues that almost nothing is original and that writers always take something else from someone else to, hopefully, enhance their work. He says this mainly because he’s right. Jefferson borrowed a lot of phrases and ideas for the Declaration of Independence from British works. This goes along with the hunter/gatherer theory as “gathering” information to enhance your text.

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I thought the reading was interesting to see put in writing the fact that almost nothing is original anymore because, yea, it’s mostly been done before.

Question 4:

                I always thought writing was critiqued based on multiple factors, like style and voice. I’ve never considered “acceptability” in the equation, which makes sense now that I think about it. My writing is always evaluated on form, hardly ever content.

Question 5:

                Porter was defending his claim that you can’t escape others’ work in your own writing by using many quotes and ideas from other writers. You can get a good idea of this just with his citation list.

AEI 1:

I’ve already used the Brittany Spears Pepsi commercial as a reference, but I am going to use it again. They pretty much took the idea from the movie “Gladiator”, which took its ideas from history.

MM:

                I picture writers now as putting down their own ideas while using others’ to help sew it all together. This could be a good way to write research papers, if that’s not what we already do.