“When you Read Like a Writer (RLW) you work to identify some of the choices the author made so that you can better understand how such choices might arise in your own writing.”(pg.72) Mike Bunn is telling us that when we read we want to look at the techniques that the author is using in order to ask yourself if you want to do something similar in your own writing or you can avoid doing it for your writing. Basically you read to look for techniques to see if it works or if it does not work for your own writer.

“What about the advantages and disadvantages of starting with a quote from the President? How would other readers respond to this technique? Would certain readers (say Democrats or liberals) appreciate an essay that started with a quote from President Obama better than other readers (say Republicans or conservatives)?”(pg.73) The trick here is that you want to read to learn different techniques, then when you start writing you want to adopt the techniques that are more effective for the type of readers that you want to attract, for example you don’t want to use the same techniques for a old audience like you use for a young audience, I compared this like making food you don’t do the same step for making rice that when you are making soup or cake or beans. You want to use different techniques to attract different audiences. 

“What Should You Be Writing As You Are Reading? The most common suggestion made by former students—mentioned by every single one of them—was to mark up the text, make comments in the margins, and write yourself notes and summaries both during and after reading.”(pg.81) When you are reading you want to make sure you mark up the most important thing about the text and to make sure you understand what the author says you want to do a little summaries in your own words or for expand the idea of the author just to make sure you understand, I always says that if you can’t explained you don’t understand it or a least you want to put it in your own words.

Something interesting that I found of this article is that we are learning how to read from the point of view of the writer to become a better writer. It’s like we learn to read than we read to learn.