1. What is the author's main point? What kinds of examples does he provide to show you? The author's main point is that you can not fully understand till you have written keynotes of what you read. Reading a book is a conversation as he puts it and writing in the book is how you continue the discussion. He uses the example that you can buy a steak but have not fully used it till you have consumed the meat. Otherwise, you were wasting the meat. He also illustrated his point by stating it is like a conversation between a teacher and student. Of course, the 'author' of the book is the one who is teaching us but as the reader/student, we must question or ponder on what the teacher is displaying for us. 2. Why is it important to annotate
When an author writes a book he has a message that he is trying to get across to
Mike Bunn in “How to Read Like a Writer” begins with a revelation: that writing is a process in which individual words are specifically chosen and strung together in a way that impacts the reader. With this in mind, Bunn encourages his students to read like a writer. Reading like a writer is different from just appreciating the message. Bunn compares reading like a writer to an architect studying a constructed building. The goal of reading, then, is for students to examine how a piece was constructed with the purpose of recreating a similar effect in their own writing. Bunn establishes the fact that students are made to read so they can learn to write before showing students how to go about this. Before reading, the context should be evaluated, he
To open up to her major points, the author starts with introducing the main topic in a dramatic way. She begins with not naming what exactly she is talking about as well as sizing it up to have a negative connotation such as
Intriguingly, he does so in a brilliant fashion making it difficult for the reader to look down upon him. The structure plays a major part in this, by telling his childhood memories of his time spent at his father’s company, the feeling of compassion is more appropriate than disdain. Despite mankind’s groundbreaking advancements in technology and communication, it has taken a step back in the durability of books. Ultimately a reflection of the state of consumerism in today’s society. An unquenchable thirst of always wanting more and the latest gadgets. Which relates back to how writing was created to record commercial transactions, and arguably the birth of capitalism, it is only inevitable that by planting such a seed, its fruits grow from it. You cannot plant orange seeds and expect apples, and our false knowledge about writing and it’s purpose is simply the representation of the current state of
He says that the best books to read are that ones that young people read. Implying that we dont have to waste our time with these huge chapter books and their fancy vocabulary. The simplified ones are better.”[3]
This essay will relate instances in the book
In the being of the book he begins talking about what drives men, he stated that there is no truer statement “men are simple” basically men are driven by who
1.) What is the author's main thesis (argument) in setting up his book? Why/how are
From this point, he concludes that literature is concerned with symbolic action, that literary or mythological characters are typical, and that the world of poet imagery is “totally symbolic” (p. 75). He then moves to the principle of “literature as a whole” (p. 49): “you don’t just read one poem or novel after another, but enter into a complete world of which every work of literature forms a part” (p. 69). Hence there is a progressive element in the study and teaching of literature: as we read more works, we become able to generalize from our experience of literature.
What are the main ideas or key concepts that the reader must understand in order to understand the author’s argument? (100-150
The author, Eric Velasquez, is telling the dialogue in this story to the readers throughout the book and the readers get to know him and be with him in those moments. For instance, Velasquez explains his journey to the Metropolitan Museum with his grandma and how he couldn’t believe his eyes when seeing a portrait of a man of African descent at the museum. Velasquez and his readers get to be
he wants the reader to interpret the story that suits their own personal life, to fill in theories and
It should be added - before giving an answer to this question - that the main purpose of the author was not necessarily to create a work of art, which the audience would simply admire. He wanted to provide first and foremost a teaching tool, to make us - reading his book - to think of ourselves and maybe to place ourselves exactly where we think we deserve.
The book permeates the ideals of his own rule with the form of the dialogue
“A book, in its purest form, is a phenomenon of space and time and dimensionality that is unique unto itself. Every time we turn the page, the previous