uthors Stuart Greene and April Lidinsky in the article “ Read like a writer” present methods that will help you will help you read more effectively and move from reading to writing your own college essays. These methods will lead you to understand a writer’s purpose in responding to a situation, the motivation for asserting a claim in an essay and entering particular conversation with a particular audience. Much if not all writing you do in college will be based on what you have read. As we maintain throughout this book, writing and reading are inextricably linked to each other. Good academic writers are also good critical readers, they leave their mark on what they read by annotating. They also tell us to annotate, identify the situation,
