When it is with Authority
To see authority in reading, knowledge and texts need to be authored and negotiable. To write with Authority you need the author’s point of view. It is necessary to examine the whole of alternative position which had been put forward by the sources which one uses. The author’s functionalities must be defined. He must be seen as a claim-maker since the introduction. Author names with basic categories should be provided, and knowledge should be well organized. The knowledge of the texts must be seen as claims to be agreed. Reading should be seen as a process of identifying, sorting, and evaluating what is said by authors.
The assertions of the authors must be analyzed and the validity of every part of them should to be considered. Look for controversies in reading and recognize them as a critical area for your own work. Distinctions must be made; one must decide whether one is going to accept or reject claims. Not only do you have to clarify the issues raised by the sources, but you must generate new issues and test their limits.
When it is without Authority
When you write without authorization the names of the authors are not given. We often refer to it as “it” or “they”. It is often presented in accordance with the traditional model of information transfer with definitive and unsatisfied texts. The corpus of articles is often not seen as a set of multiple voices of conversations, but as a single definitive source. Claims are not assessed; only facts are researched, created without author, without dispute, and without critical evaluation. Strategy uses is not simple. The author is uncomfortable with controversy and has little or no strategy for dealing with it. The author is seen more as a reporter rather than a creator. The examples used are only to clarify or illustrate, not to question or elaborate.
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