In Mike Bunn’s article, he says “You are already an author.”  He is encouraging his readers that they have always been an author. He is saying that the time we spent reading books, articles or even wrote essays, we gained experience writing like a writer. All the times we spent writing essays for our English class, or any other class, and getting feedbacks from our teacher, we learned how to write and analyze our mistakes and craft our penmanship. I don’t really read much or write essays unless it’s for school, but what I do when reading a book is highlighting the words I do not understand and look them up later. This helped me expand my vocabulary and has helped me strengthen my communication skills.
Reading and writing is extremely essential to communication skills. The more time I spend reading, the better communication skills I gain which in turn will help writing better as well. What I noticed in Mike Bunn’s writing that I will try do on my own is to try to make my essays a bit more interesting. I think some of our essays that we will write in this class will include us to add a bit of our real-life experience. I will add a little bit of my background depending on what the essays will be about so that people can get to know a bit about me and how I came to be, what my ideas and goals are. I’ve never head of the expression of “read like a writer” before but after reading this article, I think it has changed my perspective on reading. When I read books, I skim through the pages and completely forget what I just read a couple pages ago and I’d go back and re-read again, losing time and patience, but this article has definitely opened my eyes on how to read. In conclusion, this newfound knowledge to me has helped me see that there are ways to read books and understand what the author is portraying to its readers.
- Mike Bunn realized how to read like a writer. He understood that to be a writer, you must deeply concentrate on your work and carefully examining every word and sentence.
- Understand why the author put this piece of text together and read between the lines of the text. It’s not always just a simple text, there’s deeper meaning in these texts.
- When you are starting a new chapter, try to understand the authors perspective on why he started with this sentence, what is he telling us?
- I agree with Working to understand some of the choices the authors made in the book to develop a better understanding of their perspective.
- Normal readers skim through texts and only picking up partial parts of the information.
- Mike is telling its readers that every genre is different and there are different techniques for each genre.
- Knowing what we are writing about is essentially important to writing essays.
- It’s important to ask questions when you’re reading. You’ll develop a better perspective on what the author is portraying and why. There are no right questions.
