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• Intertext


  Literary text that is related to one or more other texts, especially through the use of allusions to these texts
• Intertext


  • Has its origins in 20th-century linguistics, specifically in Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
  • Enables the author to make another text based on another text
• The term 'intertext' was first used by Bulgarian-French philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva


  1960s
• Intertext is usually found in

  • Film
  • Newspaper/printed materials
  • Advertising
• Types of intertext


  • Retelling
  • Quotation
  • Allusion
  • Parody
  • Revision
  • Translation
  • Appropriation
• Retelling


  The restatement of a story or re-expression of a narrative
• Quotation


  Directly lifting the exact statements or set of words from a text another author has made
• Allusion


  A writer or speaker explicitly or implicitly pertains to an idea or passage found in another text without the use of quotation
• Parody


  Literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule
• Revision


  Features a close relationship between anterior and posterior texts, in which the latter takes identity from the former, even as it departs from it
• Translation


  Transforming activity intertextualized with language, text, culture and thinking, etc.
• Appropriation


  Reworking or re-imagination of a well-known text to change, or extend its meaning
• When to use intertextuality

  • Creative writing
  • Academic texts
• How to use intertextuality

  • Think outside your genre
  • Accept intertextuality as part of your work
  • Don't commit plagiarism
• Hypertext


  Non-linear way to present information, uses links (hyperlinks)
• World Wide Web (WWW)


  Global hypertext system
• Ted Nelson coined the term 'hypertext'


  1963
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL) web address

  • Reference web pages (HTTP)
  • File transfer (FTP)
  • Email (MAILTO)
  • Database access (JDBC), and many other applications
• Hypermedia


  Complexes of branching and responding graphics, movies, sound, and text
• Why hypertexts

  • In a hypertext system, the reader is free to navigate information by exploring the connections provided
  • Hypertext is a very different way of presenting information than the usual linear form
  • Text is broken down into many smaller units (lexias), each addressing a few issues
  • Bridge between two basic, opposite, and complementing elements that may be called gender of knowledge representation: free and shortcut
• Intertextuality


  Borrowing ideas to produce or develop another text
• Hypermedia


  Other forms of multimedia (e.g., images, audio, and video)
• Annotating


  An example of note taking
• Writing any assignment


  Take good and concise notes during the research phase of the writing process
• Critical reading


  The engaging of analytic activity which involves the reader by asking questions about the text and the author's claim
• Counterclaim


  Used to provide an opposing viewpoint
• Assertion


  Used to present a fact
• Types of assertions

  • Fact
  • Convention
  • Opinion
  • Preference
• Fact


  Can be proven
• Convention


  Pertaining to what is already given and nothing to debate on
• Opinion


  Assertions that is based from facts
• Preference


  Personal choice
• Evidence


  The body of facts given by authors to support their claims
• Academic writing


  • Balanced, accurate and professional
  • Precise, clear, objective
• Position paper


  Used to persuade the readers
• Writing a position paper

  1. Well-researched, precise, point by point, and current data to support the thesis statement and consider other points of view

  2. Three points to be written

  3. At least 5 paragraphs
• Research report


  Informing academics and specialists in a particular field about a piece of research
• Book review writing


  Analyze a book, identify its arguments, and evaluates its strength and weaknesses
• Resume


  • Used to qualify someone for a job interview
  • A written compilation of your education, work experience, credentials, and accomplishments
• Application letter


  • A personal letter that is typically used to apply for a job
  • Should be 1 page only