It's Complicated

It’s important to note that writers rarely use these strategies in isolation from one another, but in multiple and overlapping ways. Borrowing and extending often go together. We borrow a concept and then add to its range of meanings. With borrowing, writers make use of another person’s term /concept/theory, but in a new context; in the process, they often extend its meanings as well. Harris puts it this way: “You give a text its due and [then] show the [new] uses you make of it” (48).