The Discourse Community

Getting Ready to Read
When the word author comes to mind I think of someone who has created a story and come up with a whole scenario based off of their imagination. On the other hand, a writer to me is person who not only writes stories, but also writes articles and documents that are not exactly a narrative.

Summary
"Intertextuality and the Discourse Community" is an article that is easily written for the benefit of students and teachers. The article defines how to avoid plagiarism and how writings become published based on what society wants to read and not exactly what the writer wants to write.

Synthesis
This article can easily be connected to Elbow's piece because both deal with understanding how to be yourself in the writing and better understanding the audience. There needs to be a goal in writing and a firm understanding that the writing needs to connect with people.

Response	Quotation
I never thought to look at a reading as something that must conform and be acceptable to those that are reading it.	“A text is ‘acceptable’ with a forum only insofar as it reflects the community episteme (to use Foucault’s term)” (page 92)
If you are exercising who you are as a person through writing, how exactly does it make sense that one has limits and has to conform to what society wants to read.	“Writing is an attempt to exercise the will, to identify the self within the constraints of some discourse community.” (page 93)
It makes more sense how this is explained. When someone writes, it more defined by the audience because that is how the writing needs to be constructed.	“David Bartholomae summarizes this issue very nicely: ‘The struggle of the student writer is not the struggle to bring out that which is within; it is the struggle to carry out those ritual activities that grant our entrance into  closed society.’” (page 94)