an Approach

From what I could gather “Taking an Approach” is essentially the proses of taking another authors way of doing things or even just the general idea of a text, and transforming it into a way that you use to work your own information into a text. It is not countering or forwarding because you are not simply refuting something or inserting supplementary information, you are actually taking how they worked and using it as a guide to write your own text. I liked the example that Harris used with Aretha Franklin and other performers. He was showing that she took Otis Redding’s manlier version of “Respect” and turned it into her own ode to female independence.

Harris has found three different ways in which we can take an approach acknowledging influences, turning an approach, and reflexivity. Acknowledging influences is mainly literally saying in a work where the model you are writing in is from or is based off of. Turning an approach on itself is more or less taking the way another author might question or analyze information, and doing the same or similar to what they have written. Finally reflexivity is taking a look at the different choices in things like method and language and noting/ talking about why those choices were made.