In the article “How to Read like a Writer” by Mike Bunn, he explains how it takes practice to read any text like a writer but he also uses the phrase “You are already an author”. I think he means that we use writing in our everyday lives. Writing is in our daily routines. We use writing when we text. When we text there can often be errors because of autocorrect changing words that we don’t mean to say. In addition to this, when we receive texts from our friends and family they may be as fast texted and this results in having run on sentences and grammatical errors. Therefore we would have to be filling in the missing words that should have been in certain sentences.
We’re an author when we are reading a book or a type of text and feel as if the text should have a different ending. When we have to edit our essay, draft an important email, write a letter to a pen pal, write a caption for a social media post or writing in our journal is all authorship. All of these things are a part of our lives. Each one uses a different type of writing as well. Our life itself is authorship. The decisions we make each day impacts how our story plays out. There’s a famous saying that says: We are the authors of our own story. We decide whether there should be a normal guideline or whether there should be a change in how our everyday lives are. Also there can be a slight difference or a festival transition. All of those decisions are in our control.
This existing expertise can be helpful when it comes to my college reading and writing. As I read Mike Bunn’s article, I came across key points he made. Such key points would be that you can ask questions while reading a text. This can get you into the practice of becoming better at RLW. Another one would be that a story can go in different directions but it has to go in sequential order. Your first paragraph should align with the second one and so on. This article has given me some more insight on writing that I never knew before.