Fowarding: creating something new

I guess most people today find this word Forward when they check their emails. We check our emails every minute of every single day; we delete some emails even without reading them, mark some stars to indicate the importance of the emails, respond to make comments on the messages we received, and forward some interesting, important or whatever kind of emails to others. Harris describes forwarding as a tool of creating something new, and extending conversation. He clearly shows that we never win a conversation, but add something onto it to keep the conversation going. This is that simple, but there are many ways to forward something to someone. Harris demonstrates four ways of forwarding in this chapter: illustrating, authorizing, borrowing, and extending. Each has different degrees of extending the “conversation”, and what we have to understand while using forwarding in our writing is that we are not exactly forwarding to the author of what we talk about, but to the third person. In academic writings, our purpose of writing is not necessarily to respond to the authors we use; rather, we want to create new ideas to demonstrate to others, and so on. In the process of forwarding, we have to be aware of the fact that we lose control of its use in public sphere. For example, when you speak one specific word for interview, and it can be understood in different way for the listener, because forward is also the process of one’s thinking, and it is definitely different from people to people.