Essay Tracing Processes By Villanueva

Villanueva and Porter, may not explicitly have the same exact views on writing, as it is not out there in your face and defined in Villanueva’s writing, but through reading the Villanueva’s story I feel like I can infer their similar thought processes in the art of writing. Porter has the ideas of intertextuality, and a “web of meaning”, while Villanueva has this idea to adapt to the writing style of his professors with the hopes of meeting their standards. Another author that comes into play with these beliefs is Prior with his essay Tracing Processes: How Texts Come into Being. Where Prior again shares similar views as these other two authors. Porter’s idea of intertextuality is that all other texts that are produced come from some other context or piece of writing. The area where original texts actually exist is described as the “web of meaning” by Porter. So this means anything produced in writing now is not 100% original, and draws from other pieces of writing, and
Villanueva really shows proof and evidence for this theory by not just stating it, but providing experience, and real life instances for this theory. Villanueva talks about his time in college and how he was struggling to develop an essay that would satisfy his professors standards. Then he realized that by reading publications from his professors he could take away patterns and styles from the writing and use it to mold his skills and incorporate these things into his tool belt so he could further progress his own writing skills to be satisfactory to his professors. This is also a similar phenomenon mentioned in Prior’s text where he talks about how teachers help students develop their writing, by setting rules and guidelines to help students develop their texts. So if these two were pulling styles and maybe even some content from their teachers, this would mean their texts are related to other texts showing a basis for Porter’s theory of