Intertextuality and the Discourse Community

      Porter’s article on Intertextuality and the Discourse Community is telling that all writing is simply taking fragments of other writers’ passages and reusing them and piecing them together in a new fashion. Nothing is original and all writing is pieced together as that of a puzzle. Honestly I don’t see how this changes Murray’s assertion on how all writing is autobiographical. When writing even if you are piecing it together with several different situations and events they are still situations and events that you know, understand, and you look at in a specific fashion. Many people can be part of a similar situation but take from that situation different thoughts and reasoning. So, basically every person uses the same bits and pieces, but not everybody puts the puzzle back together in the same fashion. Therefore all writing is still autobiographical and Murray’s argument holds true. Even though we use certain universal bits of information to create a passage not everyone looks at the passage in the same way or style.