Intertextuality and homework for Wednesday Feb 7

The unit 2 essay will require that you use one or both of the methods of content analysis (narrativity/poetics analysis, intertextual analysis) we’ve worked with so far. I will use most of class on Wednesday to work through the steps of intertextual analysis, but it will help you understand this method more fully if you attempt to apply it on your own.

Please take a moment to read this brief post at 16 Punches on the Yahoo takeover of Flickr, and apply the steps of intertextual analysis as described by Bazerman beginning on page 91. You can skip the first methodological step that requires you “know why you are engaged in the enterprise”; clearly you are engaged in intertextual analysis because I’m compelling you do to so. However, each subsequent step of this method is outlined in the bold-faced phrases in this section of the reading. Do your best, and please type up any notes you take as you work through the analysis and bring them to class on Wednesday.

For Wednesday, please bring in your introductory paragraph as well as your experimental analysis of the 16 Punches reading (link above). In addition, we will have a brief quiz on the Bazerman reading, and I will do the book check.

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