Porter

Summary.

In Porter's article, "Intertextuality and the Discourse Community" he describes what he thinks about plagiarism in a way. He basically says that all writing is from some of another in the past and that all text is has some sort of trace of other text. He somewhat uses the word "borrowing" for what taking text is. Bottom line, plagiarism isn't always what we exactly think it is.

Synthesis.

After reading this article I thought about Elbow's article. (Not just because we had just read it either). I just saw that both of these articles are teaching us, again how to become better writers. Elbow said that having voice in a paper is key and Porter said that we need to be creative when we write and use intertextuality.

Response	Quotation
Basically this is saying that writing needs to be original. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE. Borrowing and copying are two different things and give someone the credit they deserve if that is where you heard or saw the information you needed/wanted.	"that writing must be original and that if a writer "borrows" ideas from other writing without acknowledging that borrowing, the writer is plagiarizing" (86).
This quote hit me because it is so true. I heard my high school teacher say something along the lines of this before. It is basically just saying do not plagiarize, but do research and fin d out more information from as many sources as possible to better help yourself.	"The creative writer is the creative borrower, in other words" (90).
I thought this was a cool quote because as the audience the writer need to produce something that will catch the readers eye and will make them keep wanting to read it.	"the writer creates a text which produces some change in an audience" (92).
I feel like all this is trying to say is to be creative with your writing. It is a way to express yourself and say what you want and how you want to. Some people will like it and others will not.	Writing is an attempt to exercise the will, to identify the self within the constraints of some discourse community" (93).
This is plain and simple. Intertextuality isn't new people just haven't known about it or haven't wanted to learn about it. It is just another factor to make your writing a lot better.	"Intertextuality is not new" (94).

Thoughts.

Overall this article was interesting. I like how it went into plagiarism. Intertextuality is something that I liked learning about and is something that I will have to use in the future.