In the Read Like a Writer we learned how to read like you’re in the writer’s shoes. The setting he created for the reader was that reading like a writer made him understand the author’s purpose (of what they were reading) more. That reading like this consisted of a series of choices. That these choices the author made can help you better understand even one’s own writing. Once he learned how to read like a writer he could apply this style or technique to influence his own writing according to the passages on page 7. The author of RLW goes on to state that he would try to apply other writers techniques to see if they worked for him. 

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