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Summary Of Anne Lamott's 'Shitty First Drafts'

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Jennifer Machuca
Mrs.Cunningham
AP Language and Composition
01 October 2015
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Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” selection (1994) argues that writing takes a process and the first step is to write a shitty first draft. Lamott accomplishes this by labeling “the fantasy of the uninitiated”is the thought people have when they read a great essay or book.Lamott uses this label in order to acknowledge that writing a great article or piece of literature is part of a process.Lamott is writing to those people who think authors are made to write a masterpiece in 3 hours or less.

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