Taking an Approach

After reading “Taking an Approach” it became clear to me that this was something that people use in their writing at all times. It sounds like the culmination of all the strategies you learn from reading others work and taking those strategies and using them in your own work to help qualify your point with others ideas. This more specifically is done a lot in writing blogs and news stories, because in blogs you can see that the author is taking someone else’s ideas and helping it to improve their point. Also in news a lot of the time they can be taking stories from witnesses of an event and taking their quotes to help expand their idea and prove their point. As students we do this all the time when writing research papers because we need the ideas of others to help make our own and then you can take the ideas that helped you get to your point of view and use those to qualify yourself. And it is clear a lot of them time where people are getting these ideas so they cite them in their paper for the reader to go to and to specifically where their ideas came from and give recognition to where they got them from.

This idea seems very similar to “Forwarding” because there you also take someone else’s ideas to help expand your point. The difference between them I fell must be that “Forwarding” is used more when writing short answers or responses to someone’s work, and “Taking an Approach” is used more as place to start your idea and then you have the freedom to go from there and expand on your own ideas.