Unit2 #5 Different Essays in Forwarding

In the Forwarding, Harris reveals his opinion about how to recirculating the key ideas from other texts in the writer’s own words. As he said in the beginning of this chapter, instead of creating new topics in the writing, people usually put some essays ahead to different readers. “Academic writing is a conversation (Harris 36)”, and different writers have various focuses towards things. Writers may change their opinions, perspectives, examples and others things, since they have different purposes. In a word, “in forwarding a text, you begin to shift the focus of your readers away from what its author has to say and toward your own project (Harris 38)”.

What’s more, he claims four ways to do forwarding: illustrating, authorizing, borrowing and extending along with examples about Gitlin, Postman and Marc. The four ways represent four parts of forwarding rewriting to make an entire new essay written by another writer.

I am interested in the news about the Chinese hackers have attacked New York Times for months. Because the audience is different, different companies would have opposite direction to forward towards the facts. Fortunately, I can read the news from both Chinese Medias and American Medias to see the difference. New York Times, one of the biggest American media companies, also as a part of news, collect and talk everything they can to support its idea. Without showing some opinions and evidence represented by Chinese spokesman in their website, they want to persuade Americans that all the evidences support their ideas. However, the Chinese media did a total opposite report. They showed their evidences to Chinese people to persuade them that the Chinese government never did it before, and tell people that it is a theory called “China threat”. Actually, Hong Kong (CNN) did both aspects; however, we can easily figure out that it just reported things referring to different news resources. Although all the news illustrated the fact, they have different ways to do borrow authorizing, borrowing and extending. It is a complex issue, and as a normal person, I do not know the truth. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers-infiltrate-new-york-times-computers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/31/tech/china-nyt-hacking/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fedition_asia+%28RSS%3A+Asia%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2013-02/04/c_114598555.htm