3 important ideas of each article into my own words:

Mike Bunn, “How to Read Like a Writer” (2011)

  1. Us, as readers, need to be able to understand where the author is coming from. What makes them use certain words or phrases? Writers have a unique way with words that help them write paragraphs into books.
  2. When you read like a writer, we are willing to be able to see the choices that certain writers take to have a better understanding in our own writing.
  3. When are able to read like a writer, it can help us recognize how the writing process is like making choices, it can help us see the actions that we’ll have to face and the methods that we may want to use.

Toni Morrison, “The Reader as Artist” (2006)

  1. Of course, it will take time for us to become good writers, it takes a lot of practice and patience, but with time, we’ll be able to get there.
  2. Toni Morrison states how when her family members would tell stories, she would have to rely on her imagination to be able to bring the story to life, for example, the colors, features, climate, the characters space, physical features, and their speech.
  3. The experience of reading and writing comes with beauty, profound, enraging, and contemptible, because you never know what comes next.

Quote I found interesting: “Reading Like a Writer asks for something very different.”

I found this quote the most interesting because in the article in Mike Bunn’s “How to Read Like a Writer”, he states that there are two ways to read, which is crazy to me. Throughout my educational career, my teachers never stated that, they would just read out loud to class with no emotion or have students read and correct them when they pronounce a word incorrectly. But I do have to agree with Bunn, instructors are so focused on teaching us how to write “proper” essays and forget how to show their students how to read.