Mike Bunn How To Read Like A Writer

The relationship between reading and writing is magnificent because they are one and the same. A great consistency of reading can permit someone to become a great writer. While reading a variety of books, he/she learns about text structures and language that he/she can transfer to their writing. I believe that reading gives me knowledge, which I can use to create narratives, argumentative essays and analyses. While in college, I plan to read extensively and develop a love for reading and writing, which I will have to use to be successful in my

Elbow has some very good ideas on how to use writing to enhance our reading. The evidence that Elbow provides in his article does suggest that we as a society places more emphasis on reading than writing. Also, I agree with Elbow that neither of these concepts are more important that the other. We need to use writing to enhance our reading and reading to enhance our writing while teaching literacy. We as teachers need to use reading and writing to encourage our students to grow and

At this point in my life I find myself in an interesting predicament regarding my attitudes toward reading and writing; more so towards reading. Years ago I used to love reading books for pleasure but nowadays I find myself reading things that little to no effort to digest. This includes the very basic posts on facebook expressing one’s opinion on something or articles and threads on reddit discussing topics I find intriguing. Perhaps it’s the severe senioritis that has overcome me as I enter my last semester at Chapman University. As I’ve gotten lazier I can see it start to reflect in my everyday life. Deep down I still love to read but I rarely find myself getting truly invested into the action unless it relates to something I am very

I just struggle with reading I don't like to read books when I have to make a choice when I don't have time to pick a book I want to read that I have to settle with a random book. I understand that sometimes you can't always get your way, but I would rather spend more time finding a book than settling. I do enjoy writing about anything and everything I really like how I am in control with everything. I'm not very good at just creating a story on the spot I need time to think it out make sure everything works together good enough that I feel like people will like to read what I wrote and that It makes the best story possible. My strengths are writing nonfiction, I'm good at making a story up on the spot I usually do make a war story or about my life. My biggest weakness is writing about a certain topic, I can't just make a story about something that I was told to write about I need background knowledge ways to twist words make the reader feel in the story. I get confused, pretty easily for example, using commas and the different types of there’s. I misspell words all the time if it wasn't for auto check I would probably have half of this paper misspelled or none of it would make sense. I feel like I need a rubric for writing and reading how do I know how i'm doing anything right if I can't base it off of the rubric. I am not a strong reader or a writer but, I feel with more reading and writing I can do

For some, reading and writing may come easy, but in my case I have always had difficulties. From my earliest years, the ability to read was never a struggle but having the ability to comprehend what I had read when I was finished has always been a weakness of mine. This made it extremely

I now know that I am capable of writing anything I set my mind to, before I used to struggle coming up with a topic to write about and now the topics are quick to come up with which is great because it means less time being wasted doing absolutely nothing when most classmates are already on their final draft. What I thought about reading before entering college and what I think now about reading is still the same, I still don’t enjoy reading as much as I should in order to succeed in college. Strategies that i’ve learned and improved in writing are many, as

In literary education, from childhood to maturity, individuals are taught how to write not to improve themselves as critical thinkers, but to fulfill the requirements given to them in a prompt. Whether to analyze or argue, this form of writing has led to a cease of literary improvement in students today, making many question the effectiveness of writing classes. Mike Bunns, in his article “To Read like a Writer”, explores this topic and stresses the necessity for young readers to critically examine the author’s choices in order to improve their own pieces of work. Bunns effectively argues to his audience of college students that improved comprehension comes from focusing on the rhetorical choices authors decide to make in their compositions by tying personal narratives with repetitive questioning throughout his article.

In order to improve my literary skills I have to be self -motivated , by choosing the books I'm interested in, writing the stories and essays that I like. But the problem is that there is more being literate than writing and writing , now there is more requirements in literacy such as digital. Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technology to find evaluate create and communicate information, requires both which is technical skills and reading skills. Without reading comprehension skills, any kind of reading will be challenging at in life. Increasing your writing skills will allow you to express yourself clearly in anything from personal emails, to business reports , memos and etc. All the study skills that you worked so hard will benefit you in personal and professional life.

Since I born, I usually stay at my grandmother and my grandfather’s house. My grandparents helped my mom and dad to take care for me. I learned much from them. I grew very fast and started to learned reading. My grandmother was very patient to taught me. At first, I didn’t know nothing, and then I could reading because of her. She subscribed to buying a newspaper and magazine. She always reads it in the afternoon. She taught me to reading from newspaper and magazine. She also taught me to count.

As said previously being able to read can be an essential to pursuing a good career. Reading can help with so many other key essentials that are needed. Reading can open up and expand the horizon on things.

Once the basic skills of reading are learned, like vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency, there is rarely any more practice being done and most of the time is dedicated to the writing process. At the college level, professors have limited time to talk about everything, therefore reading instruction unintentionally yet easily gets ignored when professors want to move on and talk about other material. The article “Not Just for Writing Anymore: What WAC Can Teach Us About Reading to Learn” by Mary Lou Odom discusses the importance of reading to learn and how many students and faculty struggle with this concept. Odom emphasizes that students receive little to no additional instruction in reading once they have mastered the skills taught at

Have you ever heard someone say “I love this boring book so much, let me keep on reading!”? I highly doubt it. Throughout the years we have read various books either for education purposes or entertainment. We seem to find those educational books long and dreadful that we want to quit reading, but when it is something good and entertaining we want more. When we are reading a book that we can relate too, it becomes addicting and we connect with the book so much by the type we finish reading we are devastated. We are eager to know what is going to happen next. When it comes to writing we are always told to catch our reader’s attention, to connect with them, and hook them to keep on reading.

I have developed and improved numerous amounts of writing skills. Some of those skills including being able to determine when to write formally and informally, as well as developing an advanced vocabulary. When it comes to reading a short story, like August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury, I was taught to read it at least twice (three times if there is enough time). The first time read it for fun, the second time, start analyzing the story and deciphering the text, and lastly, and if there is enough time, read the story once again in the case that something was missed. I performed this task not only with short stories but also scholarly journals that I had to read for the argumentative essay. When doing research, I did not just look from one point of view. I looked at both sides and the full picture in order to grasp my topic about the conservation of giant panda bears. I was taught when researching for topics it is best to use your schools’ database just do not use google, ever. It does not, nor

The importance of reading is well described by two highly educated and skilled authors. “Reading to Write” by Stephen King and “Learning to Read” by Malcom X. King’s piece looks to encourage hopeful writers by expounding upon the importance of incessantly reading in order to become a better writer. X’s account goes into how he was able to teach himself to read which opened up unlimited knowledge to him. He hopes to encourage others to read to defeat ignorance and prevent being controlled by misinformation and hidden truths. Both authors do their job in relating their passion for reading and absolutely inspire the reader to pick up a book. King does this far better by being much more relatable by sharing personal experiences whereas X’s description digresses into his own personal motives far too often to be as effective.

As days go by, I find myself realizing that I need to improve my literacy skills, I was never known as the reader or the writer, I was just not interested in the subject even though I knew it was very important. In fact, I always tried avoiding writing assignments like they were the plague, but I could never avoid them as they were school assignments, and of course they were grades. So it was either do them or fail.