Taking an approach.

Hello Everyone. Sorry I missed class today but I'm still not feeling to well. This is my post from yesterday. I didn't have an internet connection or access to the internet so it is late plus my sickness didn't help anything whatsoever.
As far as taking an approach goes. It sounds a lot like a compilation of forwarding and countering to me. With forwarding you present your own ideas on a subject, while in countering you use the "Yes, but" method. Taking an approach is using a persons thoughts and ideas yet improving and expanding on them. There is no longer restating the same ideas as was seen at an elementary level essay. It's like using another person's ideas to prove your points and beliefs. I'm not an expert on this situation like Harris is but what I have picked up is the fact that it is expressing the ideas of another using your own ideas and thoughts on the matter and expanding those ideas, or it is the process of using the ideas of another person to contribute to your own ideas. I know I'm rambling on and on but I really can't find to much to say on the subject. I thought it was pretty straight forward myself. I can't really wright to much on a subject that I find as simple as this one was to me. I really can't say to much about the subject. However, I did realize when reading the article though how much a good writer will do this and not even realize it. I did it mostly through high school and our teacher never called it "taking an approach." We just did our work.