Prior: Authorship

“Understanding how people represent the process and authorship and understanding how a text Is actually produced in practice are related but distinct issues,” (171).

Text: Prior

“When people talk about “text,” there are several different senses that we should be aware of to avoid confusion. Text sometimes means a unique material Inscription…Text is sometimes taken more expansively, to refer as well to the various mental and oral representations of the material texts, regardless of whether they are ever written out… Sometimes, all of these material inscriptions (and perhaps the ideational representations) are idealized in retrospect as “the text,” uniting all moments in the production under a unified label…How we understand text—as a unique material object, as a representation regardless
of medium (including thought and speech), as the ideal that unifies varied acts and objects in a process—is not the issue; the issue is being aware of the different senses, not shifting from one to the other unconsciously,” (169).

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