Forwarding

Harris seems to have this writing stuff on lock. He describes a proses that he calls forwarding that is more or less taking what a source tells you and using it to show a point. Or as he puts it, “a writer forwards a text by taking words, images, or ideas from it and putting them to use in new contexts.”(37) In Harris’s eyes the job of forwarding is to extent the range of a text and to test its limitations. In forwarding he points out four ways in which it’s done: Illustration, Authorizing, borrowing, and extending. These four are all ways in which a scholarly writer will take others information and use it to show, define, or make a reader think about their information or ideas.

Looking at the Phog Blog it is rather clear to see that most posts have at least some essence of forwarding. Right off the back every post uses the AP polls for basketball rankings, and sense the lovely author of most the posts on Phog blog is not the creator of the AP polls he is forwarding his readers the information from another source. He also brings in examples that other sports writers and commentators have brought to light. However, because the particular blog I’m following is extremely bias towards the Big 12 and more specifically KU, the bigger picture of college basketball is often over looked. But really, that is mostly the author’s choice. He has chosen a much closed audience for his blog, so he is able to be a little non inclusive of information that does not involve KU.