You are already an author, according to Mike Bunn’s statement in the article “How to read like a writer.” A writer is typically thought of as someone who has written a book or other piece of literature, but according to Mike Bunn, even if we haven’t, we have nonetheless created or written our own stories. When you tell someone about something that happened to you yesterday, they are viewed as the audience or reader of your story as you are the author. You are the author of your life, which is like a story.Additionally, Mike Bunn advises that you should read with the intention of discovering “the author’s purpose for this piece of writing?” because doing so can improve your comprehension of whatever it is that you are reading. To understand how anything came to be the way it is when writing a story, you must think like the author. Reading Mike Bunn’s post demonstrates a different approach to reading—one that involves going deeper and analyzing how one sentence or paragraph constructs the one that follows it rather than simply reading one word before moving on to the next. According to Mike, who structures his reading, he “should change the name and call this Reading Like an Architect” in the essay. This method of reading adds a twist to the fundamental reading skills taught in high school; rather than trying to summarize the entire text and determine its main points, we look at each word in turn and determine how it connects to the next word in the sentence, breaking everything down to make it simpler to understand. I’ll attempt to do this more when I read and write because it seems to clarify everything for me to understand. Usually, when I read, I get stuck because I want to read the broad picture when I should be taking it step by step.
