Taking an Approach

In taking an approach, we are told to take all that we have been taught by Harris and do not exactly the opposite but rather apply them to the different approach he wants us to take as writers (Harris 74). What we have been doing as bloggers over the past semester is nothing in respect to “Taking an Approach”; what we are doing is forwarding what we get from our different sites and sources and respond to them and in a sense are adding our opinion to a story that has already been gnawed on by possibly millions of people. The next question that follows this is how then if we are just forwarding information and ideas around that we can take an approach and actually fulfill this duty to writing, and the answer is just to take an idea and put a spin on it or in essence just write it from a different point of view (Harris 75). Even though this seems similar to responding, it takes more effort to come up with personal ideas to support this approach; as Harris says, "To reshape, not replace or rebut." (Harris 74).

In my blog for example, it is evident that they try to take an approach (in respect to the news sites/ each other also) by adding either a question or a specific part of a story and make that the highlight of the topic. One site has its opinion blog which is basically taking an approach, while the other one has the day’s highlights and allows people to dictate them to the best of their abilities and react. For me to take an approach takes away some of the fire associated with the story or subject being discussed; if only one aspect is shown or the story has no background with it then there is information lost and a qualified opinion can be hard to conjure. In retrospect, the fact that the subject is being discussed and that now people are giving their views on a subject opens up a new and positive can of worms in which everyone with a blog can now see different points of views and either agree and tell why or disagree and elaborate on their feelings. Nevertheless, in terms of “Taking an Approach” The World Newer Blog does not compete with the New York Times in the sense that it is more specified and organized for what Harris is saying as taking the approach rather than forwarding, which is the key to what ABC News does in their blog for World News.