Intertextual tracing: Prior

Intertextual tracing is tracing the detectable influences on a text by gathering all of the initiating texts, influencing texts, and source texts and analyzing the effect that each had on the version of the text being analyzed (usually the final version). Examples of things that might be traced are:

• Initiating texts
  • assignment sheets
• Source texts
  • drafts
  • annotated drafts
  • feedback in the form of memos
  • emails
  • handwritten notes
  • verbal comments
• Influencing texts
  • Sources such as books, articles or television shows mentioned as influences by the author

All of these texts form the contextual record of the text.

Methods of intertextual tracing include:

• “Intertextual analysis of…exchanges of talk and text” (179)
• “tracing language across multiple drafts” (175)

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Paraphrased from pg. 173-179 , boldface terms were boldfaced at some point in the original.

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