“and by islands I mean paragraphs” is a very different kind of article, the seemingly unorganized randomness of the article conceals a very complex mathematical computer code which give the illusion of randomness. this creates a very hard to read and even harder to understand article. the more you look at this article the more your perspective shifts. It seams impossible to try and read this without looking for some purpose or pattern but the fact of the matter is that there is no pattern to find it is not a puzzle to

the following is a list of key terms used in the article “Reading Like a Writer

• reading like a writer: this is a reading strategy where you read from the prospective of a writer.
• “normal reading”: this is the way we read naturally it is a much less in depth way of reading items
• genre: this is the way a piece is written and the context with which it should be read
• context: this is background information on a piece allowing the reader to understand the motives of the characters or subjects
• writing technique: techniques a writer uses to write a piece