Before I start this post, I would just like to mention something I put in my extended essay. In it, I mentioned Tangental Learning, or the idea that if you present somebody with something, they will research it themselves. I experienced tangental learning when I read the Monty Python quote in the start of the chapter, as I googled the skit and watched it on YouTube.
Joseph Harris invents many words in his book Rewriting, but "countering" might be the one I like the best as a concept. Countering means to create a new line of thinking from what the author originally wrote. This could be from taking the complete opposite opinion from the author to testing the limits of the position that the author originally took. For an example of rewriting, but I noticed my earlier blog post on Hadges fits the description well (I realize it's kind of egotistical to pick one of my own writings, but it's a post I know well). Much like Harris' essay he mentions at the beginning of the chapter, I went in to the blog post with the intention of arguing a number of his main points he said in the article. While not all countering is strait disagreement, it is the easiest way of presenting it. Countering is an important part of critical analysis. If you read something that you don't like and can't counter it, then you really need to work on that skill. You need to be able to not take everything at face value, and figure out all the details that go into it.
Countering and Forwarding go hand in hand to me. Forwarding is kind of the opposite (forwarding emphasizes what the author wrote while countering negates parts of it), but they are related in that they have the same goal: to work off of the previous work and expand it for it audience. While countering my change the views on the writing, it is sometimes important to let your own ideas take control of your paper.
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