Blog Entry #2 ENG 107

RWL stands for Read Like a Writer. Typically I have never though about reading like a writer until I read an article about it called “How to Read Like a Writer” by Mike Bunn. After reading this article I have realized that there are two types of ways to read. The first way to read is to identify content or to better understand the ideas in the writing (which all readers do), and the second way is to try to understand how the piece of writing was put together by the author and what you can learn about writing by reading a particular text. Reading the second way can make the reader think about how the choices the author made and the techniques that he or she used are influencing your own responses as a reader. “The goal as you read like a writer is to locate what you believe are the most important writerly choices represented in the text-choices as large as the overall structure or as small as a single word used only once-to consider the effect of those choices on potential readers (including yourself)” (Bunn 72).

Bunn, Mike.”How to Read Like a Writer.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Ed. Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Vol. 1. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor P, 2010. 71-86. Writing Spaces. Web. 2 Feb. 2016.