Forwarding

When I first heard the word forwarding, I honestly thought of an email.  I thought that you forward an email onto someone else to let them have the information as well.  After starting to read Harris, he was talking about the same thing.  He uses email arrows for left and right to show that you can either reply back to something that someone has said or forward it onto someone else to keep the flow of information going.   Harris writes, “a writer forwards a text by taking words, images, or ideas from it and putting them to use in new contexts”, this really helps explain what the idea of forwarding is.  In his previous chapter Harris even talks about how he uses techniques to bring others works into his own writing as points of reference in order to make a point.  I think that forwarding is a valuable technique but it has to be used in the right context in order to maintain what original works are trying to state. 

An example of forwarding can be found in pretty much every blog post that I have written for this class. I use reading to answer questions and in doing so reference the reading through quotes and examples, even the essay that I had to write for this class used forwarding.  I was given a prompt to use in my essay but most of my argument points were interpretation and summary of what other authors had already written.  I used quotes from many different authors and their opinions helped shape the argument of my essay.