Forwarding- Harris

Harris’s concept of forwarding is basically the use of another author’s text in your own writing. But with Harris’s simple idea, there are four sub components to it. There are four different versions of forwarding and they are illustrating, authorizing, borrowing and extending. When illustrating someone else’s writing, you are presenting their writing to make your argument stronger. You are taking out parts of their writing that you can use in your advantage and presenting them. Authorizing is citing another author’s writing to add validity to your own writing. Borrowing is using the other authors ideas or text in your own. Extending is incorporating their ideas but adding/extending to their argument with your own ideas.

                One term or phrase that I have seen being forward frequently around the sports world is the term “Linsanity”. Throughout the past two weeks Jeremy Lin as emerged as a star in the NBA and shows and blogs can’t help themselves with the term “Linsanity”. In the blog that I follow, Deadspin, incorporating “Linsanity” in their work or title automatically draws fans to it and they are using it to their advantage to draw the fans into reading their blogs. I’ve also noticed kind of an extending notion on Linsanity as well. People around the world have begun creating their own pun with his name. For example, Linderella story, Lindescribable, Linvincible. They have used one person’s creative idea of adding Lin’s name in front of any word that would fit and turned it into hundreds of newly used terms.