Describe the goal of “reading as a writer” (carefully used, brief citations are encouraged; the citation style for this course is APA)

After reading Bunn and Prose, you are going to engage in the applied practice of “reading as a writer”. Please follow these steps:
1 Describe the goal of “reading as a writer” (carefully used, brief citations are encouraged; the citation style for this course is APA)
2 Map your own steps of “reading as a writer”
3 Choose either the Joyce excerpt or the Lerner excerpt below and respond to the passage as a writer–remember, you are “reading to learn about writing” (p. 72, Bunn, 2011).
Excerpts:
It wasn’t her bathroom. The electric toothbrush, the hair dryer, these particular soaps—these were not her toiletries. For an instant he thought, desperately hoped, that they might belong to her mother, but there were too many discrepancies: the shower door was different, its glass frosted; now he smelled the lemon-scented gel beads in a jar atop the toilet; alien dried flowers hung from a purple sachet on the wall.
– Adam Lerner, The Topeka School
In fact right behind her Gabriel could be seen piloting Freddy Malins across the landing. The latter, a young man of about forty, was of Gabriel’s size and build, with very round shoulders. His face was fleshy and pallid, touched with colour only at the thick hanging lobes of his ears and at the wide wings of his nose. He had coarse features, a blunt nose, a convex and receding brow, tumid and protruded lips. His heavy-lidded eyes and the disorder of his scanty hair made him look sleepy. He was laughing heartily in a high key at a story which he had been telling Gabriel on the stairs and at the same time rubbing the knuckles of his left fist backwards and forwards into his left eye.
– James Joyce, “The Dead”

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