Nicholas Kollert
English 1510 148
James Porter Article
September 16, 2012
James Porter
Summary
In James Porters article ‘Interextuality and the Discourse
Community ‘ Porter attempts to argue that common ideas about originality and
plagiarism don’t account for how texts actually work and how writers actually
write. Porter argues that writer cant be super original when constructing
factual texts.
Synthesize
Overall Porters article was an original of its kind because
it’s the very first one that talks about plagiarism and how to work wit it. But
I noticed that Porter kind of uses the same type of set up in his article that
Kline uses in his article that’s about the only connection I could find between
all the articles.
QDJ
4. In the pass I believed that writing should be evaluated
by not only the content but how well you but the content together. Porter’s
idea of acceptability all starts with picking the perfect topic and then to
look for how valid the information is in the paper and how acceptable the
content is to the audience.
5. I think Porter fails to get his point across because he
says that all writing works are hard to make original and even that many of
them aren’t. So if he says most works aren’t original then he’s contradicting
himself in his article because that means his work as well is not original.
AEI
2. The new definition of plagiarism is that you can use
other people works just as long as you cite them the proper way and you be sure
to give the original author credit for something they already did. And in the
end it wouldn’t change that much because they pretty much have the same ideas.
Meta Moment
They way Porter presents it doesn’t really change how I
viewed writers because they are still framing their work and how they present
it even if it is someone else’s work. And accepting his views might make
writing easier for me but I would try to incorporate some of his techniques in
my writing process.
My thoughts
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