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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.

Mike Bunn, “How to Read Like a Writer”

1. The goal of reading like a writer is to grab onto what you think is important to you; certain text that have a realistic appeal too it.
2.    Before you start reading a text consider the background details.
3. Its good to have a layout of questions to follow while your reading. This can be used as a guide until you have adapted into the style of asking yourself questions about things in a text.

A quote that I found interesting was “You must look at a book the way a carpenter looks at a house someone else built, examining the details in order to see how it was made.” I found this quote interesting because its telling me how you just can’t look at the exterior of things. you have to dig in deeper to look beyond a text just being a text and a house just being a house that someone else built.

Toni Morrison, “The Reader as Artist”

1. There are two approaches when it comes to reading; a skill and a art.
2. Skill is just the average standard when it comes to writing but art is more.
3. Author’s make the choice of where they want to direct their readers to give off a certain emotion or tone.

A quote I found interesting was “I was surrounded by adults who told stories, reshaped and solicited them from each other as well as their children. I found this quote interesting because I have experienced this myself during my own childhood. It mostly occurred at large family gatherings when family members would tell a story that they hold deeply to their heart. It was only when other family members from different generations pitch in about certain details they would remember that I would realize that everyone had a different version of the the same story.