Taking an Approach

            Harris’s chapter about taking an approach caused a lot of confusion for me. There seemed to be more than one way to take an approach and they are to acknowledge influences, turn an approach on itself, and reflexivity. The way I  found Harris describing what taking an approach was instead of just rewriting something the exact same way the previous author wrote it, take the information that is present and put a twist and new style to it to change its’ original form but still have the same roots. Include your own writing style or method of writing so that the new piece of writing has a piece of you in it. While reading this chapter, his examples were helpful, but the example that kept popping up in my head is the remake of older movies.

            Taking an approach can be seen when a director takes an old movie script and directs a somewhat new movie but with the same story line. The director adds his own style of movie making and that is why people choose to watch remakes of movies.

            The example of taking an approach that I saw while reading Deadspin today was an article about Brady Quinn bashing Tim Tebow with hurtful comments. I previously read a similar article on Yahoo and noticed that Deadspin had wrote the same content, but there presentation style was different. Yahoo’s article was less opinionated and more of what occurred while Deadspin told the facts right away and included more opinions as well as  more of a comedic writing style.