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Leonela de la cruz
6 November 2017
ENGL 5M
Research paper:Outline

P:According to Anne Lamott, every writer writes Shitty First Drafts and this is how they
end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts.
I:They do not type a few stiff warm-up sentences and then find themselves bounding
along like huskies across the snow.
E: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.
Thesis:Shitty first drafts is the article that most develop students on their writing to
become a better writer. This means that there are skills that has made this writing really helpful.
In contrast of the reading A stranger in strange lands: A college student writing across the
curriculum, by Lucille P. McCarthy.
P:The first draft are very helpful because they made to take all the ideas the writer has.
According to Lammot, they are just to let this childlike part of you channel whatever voices and
visions come through and onto the page. When a student is asked to write a paper they shouldnt
think that hard on what to write on their first draft.
I:When writing a lot sometimes is confusing to find the main point thats trying to be
passed on and it makes it even harder for the writer to write it down.
E: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. Lamott says.
Also there may be something in the very last line of the very last paragraph on the page six that
you just love. This means it does not matter what you write in a lot of pages at the end there will
be found the main point that while been written down, it was not on your mind of how important
that sentence was.With the skills of just writing makes the work easier.
P:In contrast on the reading from Lucille P. McCarthy, the development of students
writing says that it depends on the environment they are in.
I:According to McCarthy, 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.
E:What is said is that the workplace affects students writing.
E:The skills of developing of every students 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.This means that the results were only from one college student and
made in different courses to see variations of results.
E:The explanation of the study cant be reliable because of the results of one college
students, cant be apply to the rest. According to McCarthy, the ultimate aim of this study is to
contribute to our understanding of how students learn to write in school.He also states that
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
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occurring in the response to particular situations. This explains the ways results on this study and
it be improved.
Conclusion: With this two reading on being the most influential Shitty first draft by
anne Lamott, and being the least A stranger in stranger lands: A college student writing across
the curriculum, by Lucille P. McCarthy this papers show the difference on what makes a good
writer when writing a paper and what makes them write that way. Lamott explains her point of
how using different skills that apply in first drafts are and what makes them easier for writers.
The other reading has a weak point. This study has been made on only one college student. The
results cant be apply 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.