Mike Bunn's How To Read Like A Writer

Reading and writing should be seen as interactive subjects rather than just reading or writing words on paper in ink. John Beans suggests that individuals should look at both reading and writing as conversations. In his article “Reading and Writing as Conversations” Bean states by envisioning yourself having a conversation with the author, referenced individuals, and characters, readers are more likely to better understand the text. Texts are seen as different conversations each text has a connection to another text. Such as if you were referencing a particular article,book,or quote in your text. Many people have a reason for reading different types of text. Some reasons could simply be because the individual wants to, needs to, discover new

While Alexie states his voice by using metaphor, he emphasizes the meaning of reading repeatedly in his essay. He stresses how he strives to read variety of books, and he records that,” I read the books my father brought home from the pawnshops and secondhand. I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the backs of cereal boxes… I read magazines. I read anything that had words and paragraphs” (18). Alexie lists out all the material he has read with the same sentence structure, yet he does not conclude all these things in one sentence. He exemplifies his passion to reading, for he tries to save his life. Due to his parallel repetition, Alexie impresses the audience by these

In the novel “How to Read Literature like a Professor” the author, Thomas Foster, analyzed and broke down many literary techniques and reoccurring themes in literature. One of the most widely used literary techniques as shown in the novel was Symbolism. Symbolism is heavily used in literature from precipitation and weather to politics, almost everything we read in literature is a form of symbolism.

In Andrea A. Lunsford 's book Easy Writer, she describes how to conduct research and evaluate source material. In addition to informing the reader of the proper ways to incorporate source materials into an article, and concludes with how to write a researched paper. Lunsford begins chapter 37 "Conducting Research", with a detailed explanation of how a writer should start to the research process. First, Lunsford informs the reader to analyze the research assignment, research a question to answer, and then to form a hypothesis. Then, Lunsford details how to perform each of these steps, beginning with the questions a writer need to ask themselves vital to the research process. These questions include information on the purpose of the research project, the target audience, and the interests or assumptions of the audience. After that, the author asks the reader to question their own attitude, feelings, and influences on the topic. Some other questions Lunsford advises the reader to answer before beginning a research project include the amount and types of evidence needed to influence their audience. As well as, questions related to the time and length of the research project. Next, Lunsford explains to the reader how to formulate a question and hypothesis for a research project. This process is begun by finding a topic and, then narrowing it down to an issue from which a question and hypothesis can be generated. Lunsford recommends that writers also plan out their research

Reading Rhetorically, the second chapter of The Academic Writer by Lisa Ede covered many topics I have studied in the past, but it captured my attention when book often returned to the theme of how reading and writing are such an integral part of our society. There are obvious examples of this such as books, poetry, and magazines but many times the author mentioned how much more of our lives involve reading than what occurs to many people. It fascinated me how we read material from The Count of Monté Cristo and Socrates to Internet blogs and road signs. When we see a word, our minds automatically read it. This became evident to me when I returned from Mexico for the first time after a trip. In Mexico it took work for me to read the Spanish

Graff and Birkenstein argue in chapter 14 that instead of asking, "What is the author trying to say?" ask students to provoke discussions by asking questions such as "What is motivating the writer's arugment?" in order to better approach reading. Because of this, discussions tended to be "far livelier" and helped students identify a response to an argument. When we are not able to find what the writer is responding to, we have to infer with clues the writer provides in their text. This is important because usually a writer assumes that a reader is familiar with what they are trying to say. So when we try to figure out what is motivating these writers, we have to ask ourselves if the author is responding to an argument. Doing this can help us

This article was mostly about ways to divided up an academic reading assignment and as she states "read smarter not harder". Karen Rosenberg starts off the beginning of the article by talking about how she did not fear reading heading in to college and then describing the troubles she faced when she began reading academic writings. She talks about dosing off and daydreaming during reading and how she thought she was just dumb for not being able to understand all the information. Then she discussed how she eventually figured out the key to reading an article. She came to the realization that is it as if you are joining in on a conversation when reading these academic readings. Realizing the author’s goals will help you understand the article

Bunn argues that every single word in a text has specific purpose and affects the holistic interpretation of the work. He uses this point to educate his audience of college students on how to read not only for content, but for every author’s techniques used to convey certain ideas and feelings. He begins by saturating his audience in reasons to read texts word-by-word. Using this basis, Bunn takes the idea that each word has discrete purpose and extends it to claim any decision the writer makes affects the ultimate meaning. Finally, he shows his audience how to apply these ideas and implement “reading like a writer”

In the short article called The Way Our Students Write Now by Anne Ruggles Gere describes how students are starting to write in different formats based on their major, minors, career path in college. Some students are able to switch from writing in a mathematical way to writing an essay their English class. Gere explains how other students are able to incorporate all their writing skill into one whole and use it to write a paper. When describing this type of writing she illustrates how a student named Grace likes to combine her abilities to create a “academic-creative hybrid”. This allows students to be organized and write in an academic way, but at the same time they are able to incorporate their creativity.

What do Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates have all in common? If you said they are all very rich with a high net worth and have changed the game in technology, then you are correct. To achieve their success they had and still have a powerful tool with them. That powerful tool is reading! Reading has been a key tool in their successful life. Reading is essential to a successful life because it brings you knowledge, it opens doors for college and work, and it’s good for your health.

At the beginning of any university semester, a student can feel overwhelmed, defeated and possibly self-doubt over the unknown requirements they may face. As the semester progressed, students may become more confident and less overwhelmed, as the tasks seem less daunting with each lesson. While writing our way through Sheryl I. Fontaine and Cherryl Smith’s textbook “Writing Your Way Through College” each reflection assigned to be written, students may have seen their confidence in their writing grow. As each reflection was based on experience, personal opinions and known knowledge of the subjects discussed.

Just like Sam and Willie, I still remember when growing up, the type of interest I had between reading and writing were distinct. I like reading short texts, magazines, the news paper, and even poems. However, when it comes to writing I could stay hours writing stories and often even filling up my note books writing down thoughts, quotes or ideas because of the joy that it brought in me. As it is mention in the article on page 317 on the second passage "-where there was much to be learned about adult worlds as well." This is a strong contrast with the Rodriguez and Freire's articles, they also mentioned similar point of views towards literacy as this one. Overall, reading open minds and eyes to see more than just what is being read but also

“I think that if you write what you love to read that will be what your audience wants to read, too.” The above quote by eminent writer Sarah Mlynowski speaks volume of the significance of adapting writing style as per the target audience. The audience is again of various types, and one cannot adapt his or her writing style as per the audience unless there he or she has some basic information about the same. This includes their age, sex, the level of education, the level of information they already possess like the general audience, experts, and novice. A lot depends also, on whether the writing is for a magazine, a newspaper, or a drama. Manser & Curtis have rightly pointed out that “It makes obvious sense to write in a way that

This video, Reading Critically:Real-World Writers, discusses the many different uses of reading and writing. You may not realize how big of a part reading plays in our everyday lives. From the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep you are reading, wether its a text off your phone, a cereal box, your mail or a legal document. People read for many reasons such as understanding contracts, to know their opponent if they are an athlete, or to stay aware of what is happening in their career field as well as many other reasons. Reading can be hard work depending on the way it is written. Contracts, for an example can be very difficult for people to understand because of the more advanced wording. Most young people don't enjoy reading just

I am a writer. I love creating my own stories about whatever comes to mind. I like writing stories about adventures and mysteries. I like to watch movies with action and then go back and write about the movie, but with my own twist on it. I started to do this after my first discovery of a mystery book called The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon.