ENGLISH 124 Lecture 1: How to Read Like a Writer
5 Apr 2016
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All writing consists of a series of choices. Reading in a particular way can improve writing skills. Work to identify some of the choices the author made to implement them in your own writing; carefully examine writerly techniques in the text. The goal is to locate the most important writerly choices represented in the text and consider the effects of those choices on potential readers. 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. When we read like writers we understand and participate in the writing (moran). Consider the context surrounding both the assignment and the text you"re reading. Think about the factors that went into the creation of the text, as well as the factors that influence personal experiences of reading (constituting the context when considered together)
