Post #5(Unit 2)- Four Moves and Rewriting

Post #5(Unit 2)- Four Moves and Rewriting

In the Chapter of “Forwarding”, Harris teaches us four moves about forwarding-to say something new or further talks and writing. The author mentions that “writing is conversations, you add to it, push it ahead, keep it going”. He uses a really great example of emails about reply and forward to show that rewriting is to say something to somebody. From this chapter, we could learn that illustrating, authoring, borrowing and extending. Those four moves both have the centric ideas: translating and responding those ideas from texts.

Illustrating is representing the ideas from other media and offering a particular view of the media. Authoring is pointing succinctly the main ideas of the original writing. Borrowing is reshaping the writing by following your own purposes. Extending is phrasing and adding thoughts to the writing.  Harris talks about strong writers tend to combine those four moves to rewrite. Also, be careful of extend writing because sometimes writers may change the meaning or say something far away from the original one.

There is an example I found about the forwarding, and the author has special response for the newspaper. The blogger use the forwarding method to response the newspaper. At every post, he gives the short summaries about the newspaper, and then he supports his ideas about how he thinks of this report. For example, there is an article called “NEW FORMULA FOR SUCCESS ”, the blogger restates the reporter’s ideas about the role of newspaper plays, but he disagree with the reporter through the special analysis. In this blog, the blogger gains the ideas of borrowing and extending. However, I think this blogger lost the ideas of adding ideas. I am mot saying that the author did not give any response for every article, and I wan to point that there are too many personal ideas than the general ideas so that I think it is the lost of this blog.

Here is the link of this blog:  http://rewrite.blogspot.com