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In his article, Mike Bunn writes “You are already an author.” He’s talking to What do you think he means by this? What are some of the things you write already?  (Hint: “Nothing” is not an acceptable answer.) Think of all of the ways you already use words in your everyday life.  That’s authorship! How will that existing expertise help you in your college reading and writing career?

I think Bunn means when he says, “You are already an author” is that you are in control of your story and how you choose to write it. I have written poems, research papers, argumentative essays, and narratives. All the words I use in my everyday life becomes my vocabulary. Then again depends who I am talking to I use my words accordingly. For example, if I was talking to a superior at my workplace I wouldn’t talk to them casually, because they are my higher-up and not my buddy. Another instance would be if I was talking to my friends I use language that people my age would say. The existing expertise of writing essays and how I talk helps me in my college reading and writing career is how I can use techniques and formulate words that belong in that piece of writing.

Was there anything you noticed in Bunn’s article that you would like to try to do in your own writing? What, in particular? Please be specific!

In Bunn’s article I noticed that all the things he has written in his article are advice. For example, “The idea is to carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing.” I try to imbed this thought when I’m reading so I can put certain techniques that I read in my writing.

In the article “You are already an author” by Mike Bunn the author is trying to demonstrate by giving this title that you are already an author but from your own life. all the decisions we make have consequences. I always believed that “our destiny is written.” but we are the ones who decided how to write that destiny.

In the app on my phone you can find “notes” whenever I feel bad or discouraged for any particular reason I like to write what I feel. I think that when I write with pencil and paper I can vent more because words weigh more to write than a simple touch on a keyboard or a phone screen. But writing helps me find out who I am and helps me calm down in my difficult times.

During the years that I have studied, I have written many spells but you can count on the fingers of my hands the spells that I have had to write about myself as a writer. During my four years of high school, I spent writing argumentative essays and nothing else. Then in my first semester of college things changed and I like to share and transmit a little of my life to the reader. But everything that I added during the last years was necessary to know what I know today. I will need everything that I studied at some point in my life. On the other hand, Something that would like do similar to Buun is to start the essay with quotes.  Something that I would like to do differently is that instead of being a quotation of a leader that is one of the great composers of music. I think it would be interesting to start writing an essay with a phrase from a piece of music that connects what the essay is about.