Essay about blog 2

Submitted By ccbaxterr
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Pages: 2

What an interesting piece of writing that was. In the article “read like a writer” Mike Bunn suggests that if we want to improve our writing ability we have to look at a text as an architect would do when looking at a house. We have to understand different techniques used and different decisions made by the author and decide about using them in our writing. He suggests us some tasks to do prior to the reading and during so, to better understand the techniques used by the author and to learn different ways of approaching a subject. I personally had no idea about that. I used to read a text just for its content and information but now I see that I have to do more than that. Well I cannot do this to anything that I read. Because most of the time I only need the information provided in the text and I do not have time to spend on “reading like a writer”, but if I want to do that I would start with asking questions about the different aspects of the text and then I will compare my thoughts with the actual ones. In this way I can understand why the author is using a technique for making his point or why he chose not to do something else and I will learn how to use them in my own writing in a proper way to make my text more absorbing and interesting for the audience.
These different techniques for writing a text will make the audience to show different reactions. I need to prioritize my techniques. I have to consider my audience and try to use techniques that they would like and