Taking an Approach ... Last blogpost ...

Harris' definition of taking an approach is very closely tied with his definition of forwarding and countering. Closely tied but they are wholly different. Forwarding and countering dealt with the portraying of other writers ideas and taking an approach does the same. But this approach takes it one step further; we, as writers, come in. The previous steps were all about taking other writers opinions and ideas and including them into your work. This step is all about thinking for ourselves and form our own ideas based upon other writer's ideas. So, we basically "reshape, not replace or rebut". Harris best summarizes his "taking an approach" by writing, "In taking an approach, you rewrite not passages or ideas from a text but another writer's mode or style of working".

The New York Times constantly "takes an approach". It is really obvious in any of the articles you read especially because different sources of news (fox, times, etc, etc) need something more than many facts thrown together. That's where Harris' step is seen. They all state the facts, yes, but then they go on ahead to say something more, something original. The blog I'm reading (Hot Air) does the same thing as the New York Times basically. It takes an approach after putting in its fair share of information and facts. After that though, they have a conservative twist most times which by itself is indicative of the taking an approach step that Harris describes. I don't think there is a lot lost by writers following this step and the facts remain the same. However, the entire viewpoint of the story can be altered in any way even after stating the facts; but ultimately it is good in a twisted way.

And so ends the string of blog posts that I have written. I don't think I will be writing any more blog posts even though now I'm positive I've going to be writing other forms of literature ...

Goodbye !!!