Todayness!

Intertextuality and genres:

Topics; which is useful in my research project?

I think that the discussion of genre is most useful for me while assembling my research project.  This is because I will need to incorporate several different kinds of genre into my project, in order to receive a more definite answer to what I am trying to discover.  I'll need to use genres like interviews and questionnaires, then incorporate them into the project.  In the project, these will prove useful because I'll have a more definite range for the project.  With several genres helping, I'll be able to know what my research person is getting out of what I'm asking.

Today!

A collaboration with Aaron...his blog contains several notes...

Lots of writings...and discussions...

Notes from the reading that was on Thursday are on Aaron's blog.

Now, the notes on Intertextuality:

1) Writer has the agency; writer controls the intertextual references.

Selectively quote...writers control the texts to make it their way...

2) Why do you want to be in control of it?  The intertextual references do important rhetorical work.--p. 85 VERBS!!!

Verbs: particular words...evokes!  Passing judgement, as well as implying...

Intertextuality in movies!

How is he choosing to incorporate other people's opinions on things:

Clips he chooses, and quotes:

How he references them...the peeps...

He uses the other texts, newspapers, to comment on the movie.  He puns their names, those of the newspapers, and he only says three quotes...

He's skipping the second one, for "racy subject matter"

In the third, he makes fun of "stoners"...he pulls quotes from different newspapers, again, to make comments on the movie.  For the first one, he says two positive and one negative.  For the third, he says two negative and one positive.  It seems as though he wants us to not like it.

Intertextual: 

1) direct quotation

2) indirect quotation

3) mentioning a person, idea

4) comment/evaluation of an idea or text

5) referring to general ideas of a subject person

Harold and Kumar: How the writer set up the review of the reviews--summary/judgement

He makes an argument, more of one than the other reviewers.  You don't come to see it for the plot.  More of a shock-comedy; pulled out the clips to prove this.  He didn't give the audience a chance to like the movie.  He plays upon the "stoner" role as soon as the clips are over.  Makes it appear that, if one likes the movie, he/she is a "stoner".

"Not the target audience"--making up fake "direct" quotations.

Homeworks!

Here be the homework for today:

WWD, p. 94, number 3

An undergraduate paper I have written...I shall choose one from my English 102 class.  I enjoyed the class because the teacher was awesome, but I don't know that I learned that much about writing papers.  But one paper I had to write for the class I remember well; it was about Darfur, and how WVU, as a school, needed to stand up and do something about the conflict.

I had lots of resources; for a paper like that, you have to have lots of resources or it could be considered highly unlikely that any of my facts were true.  I took the position that many have taken: the reports we were hearing here were quite different from what was going on.  Some numbers were tiny, while others were monstrous.  I created something "novel" by writing something that pertained to many people.  My value added was how people could become involved with helping the Darfurians.  The sources I used most likely received their information from another source.  The teacher was rather interested in finding out the background of every source I used, but he never pushed me to find them out for myself.  That was one of the downfalls of the class.  I'm sure I didn't help it much, but it was difficult to be motivated when the only critical comment I got was, "nothing!"  Critical work helps me!  Anyways...after I had turned in the paper, I did some research to find out where the sources were getting sources.  Some answers surprised me, while other really didn't.  The paper, though, turned out well.  I just think that I needed to spend more time actually working on the paper BEFORE it was due.

Anyways...um..yeah...anyways...