GRR, QD 2-6, & MM

Summary
In Porter's article intertextuality in a dispersed community he explains that not one author fully writes his or her own book they pull in ideas from other authors to compile into their own writings to make their writings better than they would have originally been without the thoughts of others.
Getting Ready to Read
I get ideas, feedback, and assistance from friends, professors, students, previous edited and graded papers.
Questions for Discussion and Journaling
2. I somewhat agree with what Porter says about intertext and that it makes some individuals less important, but on the flip side of that I think intertext is an important tool to write something worth while because the collaboration of  many others writing combined to make your own writing makes your writing what it is. But some of the intertext does make certain authors ideas less important from the 3 different documents the author compared.
3.  The dictionary definition of autonomous says not subject to control from outside; independent. Porter call an autonomous writer romantic because they say the romantic image of a writer as free, uninhibited spirit, as independent creative genius.
4. Before reading this article I did not consider that writers combined their writing together via intertext before their work is evaluated for others to read. My writing in the past has been evaluated through peer editing and my teachers grading my papers and before it was all about the letter grade. Now your paper is evaluated on context and combining all of these sources to get a good paper.
5. Porter's writing reflect the principles of his writing because intertextuality means that all texts draws at least some information from others texts, therefore not all of his work was his own original work. So that one author created some of the information and that he may pull those ideas into his paper.
6. The problem caused is that not just one author can write something authors pull in many ideas into their writings to come up with there own writings. The example given in the book says that Elaine even still believes after all her findings that the Declaration of Independence was written only by Thomas Jefferson and after the findings in this book says that everyone who writes pulls in ideas from other authors.
Meta Moments 
Yes because now I see that not all authors ideas that they put into there writings were all there own thoughts and that they pull in ideas via other authors. Yes, because now I see that its important to look at a bunch of different sources to compile a bunch of ideas before you decide to sit down and write a paper.
Reflect
Because of reading this article I now see the importance of pulling in many different authors works to compile the best paper you can because it is important to have your paper packed full of information but you have to consider that you need you use lots of different types of sources and authors to create your best paper.