When considering a scholarly article that utilizes different aspects and uses of prior publications, I find it best to look back to Jack Selzer's piece on Nelson, the engineer. Prior publications played a large role in many of Nelson's projects and reports that he completes. Whether he used a small portion of a particular text to form a new one, or a massive part of a prior text to form a new one, the previous "building block" texts were part of Nelson's process to writing a report or project before he even puts pen to paper or fingers to keyboards. By that I mean that using previous texts came so natural to Nelson and he utilized them so often, it was almost an everyday thing for him to break out prior completed projects to help him form new ones, especially when forming new documents for similar or previous audiences!
I firmly believe that Nelson is a perfect example of a professional writer that has acquired an accurate and strong use for intertextuality. He considers all angles of a project for perhaps hours before even starting to do any physical work on a project, which means that he considers what old texts are best to use for whatever audience, how to use them, how they will affect him and the project, or even how they will be viewed by outside audience members. Although the book states that we hardly notice when intertextuality can occur, I find it to be obvious and apparent when analyzing Selzer's study of Nelson.
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