Reflection

As I read the article of “How to Read Like a Writer”, I realized that some of the work that I do in my writing class is a reflection from the article. “You are reading to learn about writing” ( Bunn 72). This quote reminds me of my writing class because we read each other’s papers to help each other to become better writers. When we read each other’s papers we don’t just look for the information in the writing. We look for techniques they used to form their paper. “When we read like writers we understand and participate in the writing” (Bunn 75). I can relate off of this quote because in class we read each other papers, so we can understand why the writer choose this technique for his/her writing and see if there is any other ways they can better themselves as a writer. When I read someone paper I look for techniques they used that can help me as well because I feel like there are a few things that I can improve in my writing skills. Throughout this semester I feel like I have been getting better when it comes to identifying someone paper. “When you read like a writer you work to identify some of the choices the author made so you can better understand how such choices might arise in your own writing” (Bunn 72). Whenever I look at someone’s paper I can see some of the techniques they use like using preposition phrases, transition words, and adding in quotes. Some of these techniques are helpful to construct our papers and better whenever we are writing papers. Also, I look for if the paper make sense in their writing because if they are writing out-of-order than they are going to confuse the reader. “When you read like a writer, you are trying to figure out how the text you are reading was constructed so that you learn how to build one for yourself” (Bunn 74). When it comes to writing you want to see if their paper is constructed properly, so that the writing looks good. Not only looking to see if he/she had constructed their paper properly will help them improve themselves, but it will help you as well because you are trying to learn how to put some of the techniques into your own writing. Reading this article had made me reflected on what we do in our writing class and didn’t know that I was already reading like a writer.