Some unique takeaways I gathered from reading the “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources,” by Karen Rosenberg and “How to Read Like a Writer,” by Mike Bunn is to question every word and sentence the author chooses. I tend to read through articles to get it over with but to improve as a writer I need to change that. Another tip I acquired from Rosenberg was to build a solid introduction. The introduction is the foundation of the writing piece and without it the reader would confused on what the main idea would be. In many of my essays, the introductions tend to be rushed and the body is what I focus on. Rosenberg has also taught me to focus on what important information I should reveal to my audience, by keeping that in mind I can filter the kind of information I allow into my writing. Reading like a writer will help you improve your skills as a writer.
Rosenberg writes in several places about reading academic texts as entering a conversation. The author means that you need to be engaged with text inorder to fully understand it. In a conversation, you cannot fully comprehend if you don’t to listen to the person. You can have a conversation with the text by trying to find the meaning of each word, sentence, and paragraph. To speak to the text one must understand the reasoning behind everything. Some of the different ways you can learn about the meaning of a text is by looking at who the intended audience is and the intent of the author.
Mike Bunn’s voice in the reading was formal while Karen Rosenberg was informal. Rosenberg’s informal is simplified in a way everyone can fully understand. Although Bunn’s text was formal it wasn’t as interesting as Rosenberg’s.
