The process of reading like a writer is very helpful for readers, especially college students. Basically, reading and writing always have an intimate relationship, the more reading skills that readers have, the better they apply in their own writing. There are a variety types of reading, but the method of reading like a writer is one of the best ways to approach and understand deeply the certain writings. In Bunn’s essay, there are obviously some differences between normal reading and reading “like a writer” and I think I have learned a lot after reading Bunn’s essay, this is also the useful method that college students should do to be successful.
According to Bunn, the regular reading differs from reading like a writer. This is because when readers have regular reading, they just tend to concentrate on the content and information, but when readers read like a writer, they have to read deeply and think about the ways the author convey their messages to the audience then know how to build your own writing. In fact, when readers read a piece of writing, they might do as normal reading as they can, which is just find out the meaning of the text. In contract, when people read “like a writer”, they prefer focus on how the author writing it by identify their techniques as well as choices rather than looking what the writer trying to say. From that, they will know the ways how to develop their own writing. In other words, Bunn states that reading like writers is when “you are trying to figure out how the text you are reading was constructed so that you learn how to build one for yourself” (74). Therefore, normal reading is different from reading like a writer in terms of the ways in which the readers approach the writings.
There are numerous benefits from the process of how to read like a writer and I believe that college students will find it beneficial after reading and apply these process to their own writing. In Bunn’s essay, he shares on how to become a better writer by reading what we read as a writer would read it rather than reading it for the purpose of joy, satisfying tasks or some other different reasons. Actually, Bunn’s essay “How to read like a writer” dive deep into my fear, as a college student, after reading these process, I found that very helpful for me. This is because I used to struggle with writing and it became one of my biggest fear when I am in the academic environment. Now that I have read Bunn’s text, I have started to follow what he mentioned in the process of reading like a writer for my leadership textbook, for example identifying the author’s techniques, choices, asking questions before reading and when I am reading,…In this way, I believe it will help me improve my reading as well as writing skills in order to contribute getting as high grades as I expect in my writing assignments, such as EAP writing exams. I will plan to consider this essay as a guide to direct me in proper way towards becoming a good writer. I agree that reading like a writer is really helpful for me as well as college students.
Everyone, especially college students should benefit from the process of reading like a writer as it allows readers understand fully how to become a better writer after taking advantages from reading. Now that I have learned about how to read like a writer and ready to apply that method to my classes. Hopefully, this practice will improve my grades of writing assignments. In Bunn’s essay, there exist many differences between normal reading and reading like a writer. I believe that his essay will be definitely helpful for college students because of its potential merits.