Intertextuality

Charles Bazerman discusses in his chapter, Intertextuality: How Text Rely on Other Text, this new idea called intertextuality and how its a topic that isn't as recognized as it should be. He states that intertextuality is the relation the texts has to the texts surrounding it. What this means is, our text technically isn't our own, it comes from other texts or words that we've heard or seen before. We use this everyday text in our own writing, to develop an understanding, and to increase our own knowledge. Bazerman uses an article, The Weak Link, as an example. In this example it is evident that this article shows the levels of intertextuality through issues, ideas, quotations, and much more. Bazerman is then able to conclude by saying, "intertextuality is not just a matter of which other texts you refer to, but how you use them, what you use them for, and ultimately how you position yourself as a writer to them to make your own statement."