Intertextuality: How Texts Rely on Other Texts

As I read this article, I clearly thought of Jack Selzer's article about Nelson.  Selzer, as we learned observed and researched Nelson for a period of time.  We came to know about his thought processes, how he writes a texts, and in what way he does so.  Nelson is a technical writer, he uses his past writings to form new ideas, memos, and other writings.  

This article stated many types of intertextual representation.  Nelson uses direct and indirect quotation, mentioning of document, comment or evaluation on a text, uses recognizable phrasing, and uses languages and forms that echo types of documents (Page 89).  All these forms of intertextual representation show us how Nelson relies on other texts.

This article helps us as a reader show us how writers use previous texts they have written or other texts from another author and form new ideas, concepts, and forms.