Please read “How to Read Like a Writer” by Mike Bunn and write a response to the questions below. You can answer on the document that I emailed you, but in the future we will begin posting on the class Open Lab site so we can comment on each other’s answers as well. If you have created an Open Lab profile, you can answer these questions by replying to this post.
- What did you think of the piece? Did you like it? Or not? Why. Explain! (Don’t worry my feelings won’t be hurt! Be honest!)
- What tips or ideas did you learn about how to Read Like a Writer? How might you apply it (use it) when you read?
- Can you explain what you think the author means when he says, “When you read like a writer, you are trying to figure out how the text you are reading was constructed so that you learn how to ‘build’ one for yourself” (74). Be specific. Share a personal example, if possible.
- Let’s think about the “context” of this text. What is the author (Mike Bunn’s) purpose in writing this piece? Who is his intended audience?
- What is the genre of this text? Its okay if you don’t know! Just give it a shot! (essay, article, poem, etc.)
- What did you notice about HOW this text was written? Choose one observation!
1.I like the piece because it states a lot about how to read like a writer, which enlightened me a lot, I think the idea of what I should think about when I read helps me in my future reading.
2.Reading carefully and slowly, while thinking about why the author will use “this” or “that” technique to express his idea. Those might help me get closer to the author’s thoughts during reading.
3.It means every good author’s writing would decide their purpose to write and intended audience, based on that, they select their word chose, writing style, genre. Then the writing becomes like building a house, you have your base, then build your idea on that base. I do not have much personal experience on this idea, but during my writing, I often do not have a clear aim, I just write down what appears in my mind at a sudden moment one piece to another piece, it is not good as a writer.
4.The author’s purpose is to reveal that there is a connection between reader and writer. Moreover, he gives advices about how to read like a writer. The intended audience might be readers, writers, students, teachers.
5.The genre of this text is persuasive writing.
6. I noticed that Mike Bunn often used student’s opinions to teach us how to read more like a writer. It is probably because Mike Bunn believes that their opinions are more acceptable and understood by audiences.
1, The piece was good because it teaches us another way of seeing things another way of reading and writing. I did like the piece because it gives a new point of view on how to use new tactics for reading and writing.
2, A tip I learned from how to “Read Like a Writer” is to identify the genre of the text we are reading for us to better understand what we are reading.
3, What the quote means is that something when we read a textbook from an author, as readers we try to construct our own way of writing or techniques using some of the ideas we got from the text we read and turning them into our own strategy to fit our needs.
4, The author’s purpose in writing this context is to inform other readers how to implement new ways of writing and reading and how to craft our own ways of writing, and the intended audience is the students, and readers.
5, The genre that is being used in this text is
6, I noticed that the text was somewhat based on a story at first before there were these ideas that were shared later.
1) What did you think of the piece? Did you like it? Or not? Why. Explain! (Don’t worry my feelings won’t be hurt! Be honest!)
I enjoyed Mike Bunn’s piece because it helped me to better understand what reading like a writer means and how to do it correctly so the reader of my text could enjoy it better.
2) What tips or ideas did you learn about how to Read Like a Writer? How might you apply it (use it) when you read?
I learned that reading is more than just understanding the content of the text, it is about understanding how the text was created, what methods and techniques the author used and how I can use them myself. I learned that I need to focus on the audience who I’m trying to reach. I learned that word choices can really impact your writing and how people perceive it.
3) Can you explain what you think the author means when he says, “When you read like a writer, you are trying to figure out how the text you are reading was constructed so that you learn how to ‘build’ one for yourself” (74). Be specific. Share a personal example, if possible.
What the author is trying to say is that knowing what techniques the author used and how he/she used them can help you in creating great writing yourself. You could adopt the techniques and skills the author used to improve your writing and reach a bigger audience. For example, if the author used metaphors in their writing and that grabbed your attention, then you could implement something like that in your own writing.
4) Let’s think about the “context” of this text. What is the author (Mike Bunn’s) purpose in writing this piece? Who is his intended audience?
The purpose of the author’s piece is to guide his audience (writers, readers, students, professors) on how to achieve the best writing possible by implementing techniques from other writers in their own.
5)What is the genre of this text? It’s okay if you don’t know! Just give it a shot! (Essay, article, poem, etc.)
I believe the text is an essay, because in various parts of the text he states it is.
6) What did you notice about HOW this text was written? Choose one observation
I noticed that it was written in a very engaging way that attracts more than just the intended audience, and it is easy to comprehend and adapt what we learned in our own texts.
1.I like the text. I like the way writers explain which step in detail about how we can write and read like a writer. It also gives us an example of how we read and write like a writer and how we can used different techniques.
2.the tip i learned from the text is to read carefully and slowly word by word. and to question how and why writer wrote that.
3.i think this means how can i get inspire form the text i am reading and how can i use one of the technique in my own writing.
4.So, the intended audience was students and the people who are interested in reading or writing. The purpose of writing this text was to give new ways and techniques.
5. I think the genre of the text is essay.
6.I notices that writer start the essay with a story and then give the main idea of essay.
1. Yes, because the author used his own experience to tell us how to make writing and reading more funny and interesting.
2.An idea I read about this article is find a reading style that you comfortable and interesting in, then you can read used your heart.
3.We must learn to how to understand the meaning of the author’s writing, from the author’s perspective to read what he read.
4.The author purpose in writing this piece is students writer and reader, he wants reader to find some funny things in reading and writing, and teach us how to write an essay like a writer.
5.The genre of this text is an essay.
6.I think just read used your ways that you feel relaxed, and find the writing skill, read the book with your heart.
1.I love this piece. I think it’s humorous, funny and easy to understand. So that I can better understand the knowledge about writing.
2.I learned from this article that we should analyze the article and understand the author’s own ideas and opinions.
3.What I understand from this sentence is that when I read as a writer I need to understand how a text is constructed, to understand the ideas of the author of the text. So you can learn how to build your own text.
4.I think his purpose is to let the readers of his articles to understand the way of reading and improve the ability of writing. His target audience should be teachers, students, and people interested in reading and writing.
5.The genre of this essay I think is essay.
6.Regarding the way this article is written, I noticed that the author has been using his manager and some history to describe the article.
1.I think this article is very good and I like it. This article allows me to understand the writer better. It also tells us how to write and read better.
2. One thing I’ve learned is that no matter what you’re writing, you have to clearly express what you want to post, so that readers will know more about what you’ve written.
3.What I think by author is that when you read like a writer, the goal is to find the writing choices you think are most important in the text, the choices of overall structure.
4.I think the author’s goal in writing this article is to use new techniques to write and read. Audience (students, professors, readers, writers.
5.I consider this article to be an essay.
6.I noticed that authors teach us how to read like authors. And give the reader a good idea of what the author is writing. And also learned a lot of skills in the text.
1. In my opinion I really like the piece because it changed some of my pov of reading and writing all together and It also helps for future readings and writings giving it a different perspective
2. I learned that no matter what you are writing you should always try to grab a readers attention and make them relate to you someway somehow if not at least make them interesting in what you are writing so they can picture an imagine of what you trying to put out there for people
3. What I think the author means by when you read like a writer is that not only will you read like a writer but take some key points and analyze how they wrote their writing taking your reading and writing to the next level in the future
4. The Author’s purpose on writing this story was to inform college or even high school students which are his intended audience to learn how to improve their piece of writing and just get a better understanding on how to master the their own craft at best
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6. I noticed that the author gave details on himself and experiences that relates to everyday college student which is good for a better connection between the reader and writer