Post 3: "Intertextuality and the Discourse Community"

Porter explains that writing is no longer individualistic, infect it has become rather difficult to write something that is truly ones own work. Within all writing works there is always going to be some form of intertextuality. For example Porter brings up the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson, this the United States most importance historical document is not completely written by Jefferson. Jefferson uses text from all sorts works and brings them all together to form the document we know today. If the Declaration was truly written by Jefferson then it most likely would not be as important as it is today. Further more if we imagine writing as individual then most writings won't fit within a discourse community, but we do not want to go overboard and say there is no such thing as plagiarism. We need to find a happy medium between these to extremes only then can we advance in writing. 

On Another note I feel like some of the reason for this to be brought up in the 21st century is the invention of the internet. The internet has made it easy for writer to publicly view many more writing compositions. Therefore I feel it is way easy for a writer to use intertextuality within their own composition, this does not mean that these composition are necessarily bad. We as writers need to be aware of intertextuality and to not plagiarize.