Blog 6… “Forwarding”
2/18/12
After
reading the chapter about Harris’ explanation of conversation, debate, and
academic writing, the title of his book made more sense to me. When we are
writing an essay, we use quotes from credited authors to explain a point in no
better way. We then back that quote up with our own thoughts and opinions on
the subject. Harris explains that when you quote an author you are “recirculating
his/her writing, highlighting parts of his text for the consideration of
others. You are “rewriting”.
Blogs
and other numerous sites such as Social networks use this type of writing quite
often. I will see friends post links on Facebook to a certain news article, with
their opinions in writing above the link. Bloggers “rewrite” news articles in
their own style. Bloggers may look up a news story on various websites or
newspapers to get the full story and multiple viewpoints. They then write their
blog on the same subject, sometimes quoting other sources or posting links so
readers can find where the blogger got their information from.
Techcrunch.com
has numerous examples of “forwarding” or “rewriting”. Throughout their newest
post, about Social Networking, there is black and green text. Green texts
throughout the article have hyperlinks attached to the words. The first
paragraph states “With the pending public offering of Facebook
anticipated to be the largest
tech IPO in history, it’s an interesting time to think about where we
go from here.” The reader is able to click on the green text to go to
another website that the blogger read before he wrote his piece. This is the
perfect example of forwarding in writing.
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