What is rewriting?

In Rewriting, Joseph Harris thoroughly explains what is meant to rewrite something from another writer's work. He easily explains rewriting or responding is more than just summarizing what has been citied. Harris points out that to question what has been said is one of very important aspects of writing because as one questions already written work, one can rethink, reinterpret, and reproduce the work in his or her own word.
At first, it was hard to find any connection between Harris's point of view of (re)writing and Sullivan's writing (blogging) because Harris deals with and the main point of this book is introducing readers what rewriting is for academic writing, which is usually much more formal than blogging. But soon, I found co-purpose from these two writers: writing is the way to show one's perspective on something else. According to Harris, when one rewrites, one “translates the language and ideas of a text into words of [one's] own.” Like blogging, which usually contains personal opinion on a subject, rewriting also needs to be pushed beyond “rewriting” a text.  And I think it was an interesting interpretation when Harris makes point what text is. For him, not only a book is a text, but movies, plays, songs, paintings, sculptures, photographs, cartoons, videos, billboards, advertisements, etc. also are text as well. That is exactly what blogging does. People simply talk about what their topic is at first, and then share their opinions or experiences on the topic in positive or negative way. This process will be repeated from a writer to another one, and so forth, which I believe a network or a community of various subjects depending on how writers bring in another subjects into the work. Even though Harris’s Rewriting and Sullivan’s “Why I Blog” do not share common subject of writing field, the base of their writing process is the same: in order to make good (re)writing, one has to have ability of questioning and rethinking process to already written work.