Leonela de la cruz

Professor Doutherd
ENGL 5M
Research paper
According to Anne Lamott, every writer writes Shitty First Drafts and they dont start
with good ones but as they processed they end up excellent last drafts. They do not type a few
stiff warm-up sentences and then find themselves bounding along like huskies across the
snow.The first draft is a childs draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over
the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later (Lamott 528).
Shitty first drafts is the article that most develop students on their writing to become a better
writer. This article can be very useful for an outsider student. There are skills that can be
obtained from this reading for future writings. In the other side to this statement is the reading,
A stranger in strange lands: A college student writing across the curriculum, by Lucille P.
McCarthy.
In order to have a good writing assignment, The first drafts are very helpful because
they are made to take all the ideas the writer has, they are just to let this childlike part of channel
whatever voices and visions come through and onto the page(Lamott 528). When it comes to
writing a lot sometimes is confusing to find the main point and how to make it really
understandable to the reader. Just write it all down in paper, because there may be something
great in those six crazy pages that you would never have gotten to by more rational, grown ups
mean.Also there may be something in the very last line of the very last paragraph on the page six
that you just love (Lamott 529). This means that it does not matter what its written down in a
lot of pages, at the end the main point will be discovered and while it was written down, it was
not on mind how important that sentence was.
In the reading from Lucille P. McCarthy, the development of students writing depends
on the environment they are in. These overlapping communities influence that ways of students
think in write and interact in college classrooms, and will shape their notions of what it means to
be (McCarthy 233). This means that the setting affects students writing but that cant be the
case for every student from college. The skills developed from every student are different and it
cant be applicable to everyone. McCarthy experiences one of the colleges students, Dave, in
three of his courses, freshman composition in the spring of his freshman year, and, in his
sophomore year, Introduction to poetry in the fall and Cell Biology in the spring. Dave perceived
himself to be in one strange land after another (McCarthy 232). This means that the results were
only from one college student and made in different courses to see variations of results.
According to McCarthy, the ultimate aim of this study is to contribute to our understanding of
how students learn to write in school. Finding from this study corroborate the notion that
learning to write should be seen not only as a developmental process occurring within an
individual student, but also as a social process occurring in the response to particular
situations(McCarthy 234). The ideas from the author cant be helpful for students thinking.
With this two reading on being the most influential Shitty first draft by anne Lamott,
she explains her point of using different skills that apply in first drafts are and what makes them
easier for writers, like the how helpful first drafts are, that the main idea cant be found easily
found but it is there and that through all that work, final drafts will end up very well . The
reading A stranger in stranger lands: A college student writing across the curriculum, by
Lucille P. McCarthy as being the least influential for students. The other reading has a weak
point. This study has been made on only one college student. The results cant be applicable to
everyone because we are not all the same. When it come to adapting to new places and new
things the results vary, one cant speak for the rest thats why this is a reading that can be least
important.