Sports to Sports

The way, in which Jarvis describes, “taking an approach” in the first few sentences, is working in the mode of another writer. Through this process, there is a weak version in which a writer simply assumes the role of disciple, adopting the moves and interests of another thinker. Jarvis explained it as your typical school writing, in which you are asked to apply the ideas of a writer to your assignment. For instance, I would take the ideas that Matilde Zimmermann implements in her book Sandinista, and apply it to my paper about civil war corruption in Guatemala. Instead of drawing on new ideas and thoughts, the point of taking an approach is to prove that the originator of the reading is correct. However there is a catch to taking an approach. When you decide to take an approach on something, both yours and the author’s thinking needs to change, for the reason of new knowledge being acquired. Since the author cannot be entirely right about the entire topic, it is up to the individual disciple to research newer information and incorporate these finding into the original approach. Instead of rewriting an author’s factual-based article, the concept behind this literary concept is to rewrite a text by using the author’s mode/ style of writing. Characteristics of writing like what concerns does the writer usually take on, how the author answers these concerns, and what kind of person I feel this author is, behind his or her own writing.
Through this window of taking an approach, the media instantaneously appears in my mind. Many authors of the press use characteristics of others. For my blog in particular that I follow, called Deadspin, the few authors and contributors try to use the mindsets of news castors. The info is thrown out there as if I was sitting in front of the television. As well, they commentate as if it is Sports Center, meaning that they have conversations with the public as if they will answer, like people do usually with ESPN. These characteristics obviously all stem from either training or self-learning through other sources of media. Since this capability is more than likely happening, these bloggers are actually taking an approach of the reporters on sports news.