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Bunn, Mike. “How to Read Like a Writer.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, vol. 2, Parlor Press, 2011, pp. 70–86.
Summary: Bunn’s article informs us and shows us how to read, think, and analyze like a reader when reading. Reading like a writer helps us to think critically. The type of writing Bunn is using in his article is expository writing. The intended audience(s) in this article is college students. Bunn has set up the main points for the basis of learning to read like a writer: intended purpose, intended audience, genre, published or student writing, and identifying the writing assignments to be assigned so that the person writing can begin the process. The author’s conclusions are how reading like a writer …show more content…

Using these skills builds credibility as a writer. The need to know how to do so is important as this can help us to understand and analyze certain literary techniques that we use all the time. This process is also useful as we can use it to identify the context of a reading before we even read to understand the main idea of the writing itself. This process extends to all parts and areas of our lives all the while increasing our literary comprehension. This reading is helpful to the intended audience as it can help to build credibility, literary comprehension, and critical thinking …show more content…

Reid uses examples to support the main idea of a basic writing layout. The intended audience may find this reading to be helpful as having a basic writing format is important to have no matter what form of writing.

Irvin, L. Lennie. “What Is “Academic” Writing?” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, vol. 1, Parlor Press, 2010, pp. 2–17.
Summary: Irvin addresses the common myths of writing in his article and states the proper solution for each myth. This article also addresses what academic writing is and how thinking critically allows us to understand what academic writing is. Irvin also makes a point of how most if not all essays and writing done in college is done so in an argumentative manner. Irvin’s conclusions are that writing has its own format and set of rules that differs with each kind of writing and will be subject to change by the writer.
Evaluation: Irvin uses expository writing to state how academic writing is argumentative and has its own set of writing myths. Writing myths can happen to any form of writing using critical thinking skills to address the issue. Irvin states in his article that the intended audience is college students. This reading is effective as the myths can help the reader to understand certain layout for the different parts of

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