Mike Bunn’s intention when he says “You are already an author” seems relatively clear to me. Everyone has their own experience as an author if they have ever written an assignment for school. They have also formulated the same kind of ideas and strings of words, to sentences, to paragraphs that Mike Bunn described earlier in the essay. If you have ever had an argument or if you had to give a speech to any sort of group of people, then you have gone through the same process of structuring and planning as an author. Yet I would still argue that being an author is much more intricate, and I think that the essay also happens to support that view too.
As for any strategies that I would plan to use in my own writing, there are a couple of things that I never really thought too much about when it comes to writing until I read the essay. One example of that would have to be the part about considering the genre of the work. The main point in this essay is largely the idea of figuring out what techniques in reading that you may be able to use for yourself for your own writing. In this scenario specifically when you consider the genre that you are reading or writing, you want to consider what techniques work and are effective. On the other hand you want to see which ones are not effective. It is actually a useful thing to consider when writing for assignments and what not. Depending on the formality of the assignment you may find that writing in a joke might work more in say a speech class (like I had last semester) compared to a research paper. Then of course there is obviously the matter of considering your purpose for writing. As the essay sort of describes, knowing assignments ahead of time (or knowing what you are going to need to write) helps a lot to direct your thinking and the choices that you might make when you actually get to it.
