Intertextuality - Seloni

I liked seeing this article because it provided a clear picture for me of how dissertation work based on ethnography can be broken down into a shorter article. I think it is important to understand how to get some "mileage" out of the research that we do, particularly due to the lengthy nature of ethnography.

In addition, I found this study interesting because it pulled out one specific finding of this dissertation, which was the intertextual connections the grad students had made.

A meaningful quote:
"In conclusion, the academic culture of collaboration (or intercultural academic collaboration) described through this analysis of intertextuality is comprised of a set of literacy practices in which students are not only swapping stories, but also engaging in a cross-cultrual (or intercultural) meaning making aactivity. By building an academic culture of collaboration in their own informal communities of practice, they are talking about the writing games they are involved in. That is, they are acting in the doctoral world with the words they are constructing collaboratively. This collection construction of meaning meaking and resistance to authority wihtin the academic culture of collaboration is an important step toward empoewring multilingual students to appropriate literacy practices" (81-82)

Overall, I think this study demonstrates how important it is to look into an area of the field that needs elaboration.