Reading Response RLW-Saif

One thing I learned from reading “How To Read Like a Writer” is to base your writings on things you read. The reading says to carefully examine things you read and decide if you would like to adopt the techniques in your writing. This is good to keep in mind when I am reading passages in the future.

“The goal as you read like a writer is to locate what you believe are
the most important writerly choices represented in the text—choices
as large as the overall structure or as small as a single word used only
once—to consider the effect of those choices on potential readers (including yourself). Then you can go one step further and imagine what
different choices the author might have made instead, and what effect
those different choices would have on readers.” (Pg.72)

This quote says to analyze texts you’ve read, look for good choices the author made in the text to apply to your writing, and see how those choices make it a better reading for the readers. The quote also says to go a step further and see if you can change the text to improve it.

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