Notes- How to read like a writer

Key Words/Terms:

  1. Corinthian: belonging or relating to Corinth, especially the ancient city.
  2. Antiquated: old-fashioned or outdated.

EX. It’s like having a BlackBerry phone- still a phone just not as popular.

  • Constitute: be (a part) of a whole.

EX. Single parents constitute a great proportion of the poor.

  • Divisive: tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people.
  • Breadth: the distance or measurement from side to side of something; width.

EX. The breadth of the boat is 25 feet.

  • Immediacy: the quality of bringing one into direct and instant involvement with something, giving rise to a sense of urgency or excitement.

Making Connections:

                In the essay “How to Read like a Writer” by Mike Bunn I made some connections and one of them is how he read a lot for college classes and how he never really thought about how authors make it so how your supposed to read the book or article can change they way we take that to write our own papers and short books. After reading this article I went back and read some specific parts again to see if I could understand the text better and I just focused on reading each word by its self and it actually helped. Another connection I had to this article was in the “Thinking like a writer” section and how he wants us readers to get in the same mindset as the writer and to look at how the piece of writing was put together and the different techniques the author uses for us readers to use as well. My last connections is in the “Reading like a writer” section and how authors wants us to examine every piece of writing we read and to decide if we want to use that in our own writing or not, and that every piece of writing we have read is different but sometimes the same in some ways.

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