Forwarding in Blogs

Rewriting is the way of academic thesis. In rewriting, scholars use both countering and forwarding to explain their opinion on a subject. Harris’ explanation of countering seemed very similar to forwarding. In countering, a writer will “view a text not as wrong but as incomplete.” I myself have used countering in academic writing without even knowing it. I usually quote someone and then add to the explanation using my own words. Countering is very similar to forwarding in the sense that you are using another person’s writing to get your point across.

                Techcrunch.com uses this tool (countering) in every blog post. In my last post I explained how TechCrunch uses hyperlinks to quote authors. In their last post about Social Networking, the author, Jay Jamison, starts a sentence off with green text (a hyperlink you can click on to read more about the subject) and then writes his own opinions on the matter while trying to sum up what the quoted author was trying to explain. He also adds new thoughts and expands the quoted author’s views.