Harris vs. Sullivan

Harris finds a way to describe writing and reading that manages to make formal writing while having a model setup in similar ways to a blog. Harris has a writing style that you have to look deep into your paper and take the perspective on your paper as if you are someone new trying to expand on the topic the author is writing about. He titles the book “Rewriting” not because we can copy off the work of others, but instead to expand off someone else idea and keep the conversation going. Harris sets up the five steps that will help us become better interactive readers and writers. He goes in-depth of exactly how to do so because he seems to find typical terms to be over used and not giving the reader enough direction of what he or she should say about a text.

This is similar to how Sullivan explained his reasoning for blogging but he focused a lot of the topic towards what blogging is rather than how he goes about writing one of his blogs. The two authors include a conversational idea that comes with reading, because as we all know its hard to read or look over something and not being filled with your own personal opinions about it. Sullivan shows a more informal way of having a conversation through text and more on the surface, but Harris explains a more formal way of being able to write similar pieces and explains many steps you need to take when reading a piece and look deeper into it for new meaning of your own.