WAW: Porter (86-100)

Questions for Discussing and Journaling

4: The way I've always assumed writing should be evaluated is how well the author conveyed his/her message to the audience without plagiarizing. Sometime plagiarizing can happen without the meaning of it, but if an author uses another persons work and calls it their own is just unacceptable. My writing has always been evaluated on a few main points grammar, organization, information given, and we normally turned it into a website that makes sure there isn't any plagiarizing.

5: I think what anyone writes will have intertextuality unless an author writes about his/her own experiences. Porter's work reflects the principles of intertextuality because I bet someone has already written about intertexuality that has the same information as Porter just relayed in another way.

Applying and Exploring Ideas

2: Plagiarism should be seen as any type of work that directly takes one persons work as their own without giving any credit to the original author. In most points intertexuality with happen because original work is hard to come by. This almost compares with what Porter was saying because he understands that there almost isn't anything such as original work becuase most work is intertextuality.

Meta Moment

Porter's study hasn't changed my mind for the most part because its hard to be a writer and have original work because there are so many people in the world that write about the same things therefore it is so hard not to plagiarize someones work. Porter's notion about writers and the way they write make me not think twice about plagiarizing and makes me more relaxed, so I can write the way I want to.