A World of Difference

In Harris’s chapters on rewriting of texts, in his book Rewriting, he comments on ways to quote and summarize while incorporating your own ideas as well. He suggests that a reflection is “a weighing of options, a sorting through of possibilities” and a way of expressing your own reactions as a reader (Harris, 25). In this Harris is attempting to point out that as biased readers ourselves, what we add to the article our unique perspectives and reactions to certain points that the author might be trying to make. The same can be applied to the blogging world. In a way blogging is sort of a way of commenting on the world around you, your personal and unique observations of the world and their reactions. People are known to reflect (and blog) about the current events of the world, perhaps politics, the happenings in their daily lives, or even specific things like the way to make a perfect turkey for dinner. Not only are blog posts a reflection but a slightly biased perspective on how the world works. In his article discussing blogs Andrew Sullivan proposes that blogging is similar “to [being] host to a dinner party…provok[ing] discussion or tak[ing] a position” in that what you post is your personal idea on a certain issue (Sullivan, 5).  In this way, your particular idea or thought of the world is posted as a sort of reflection, citing the source of your own inimitable experiences. Thus while blogging does not always specifically comment on an article or literary work it does in a sense comment on the ways in which the world around us works, incorporating the various ways in which we each experience it.