Anne Lamotts Shitty First Drafts By Nancy Sommers

After reading, â€Å"Shitty First Drafts† by Anne Lamott and â€Å" Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers† by Nancy Sommers, I couldn’t agree more with their writing process strategies and statements. Anne Lamott is known to be professional writer who has strong beliefs in not only writing but her process. In Lamott, article â€Å"Shitty First Drafts† she supplies student and professional writers’ opinions and provides her beliefs of the writing process.Lamott, breaks down the importance of first drafts and how even recognized authors write them.Lamott, recommends a first draft is needed to get the first thoughts that come to mind down on paper without second guessing. Nancy Sommers, a dosland director of expository†¦show more content†¦I agree with Lamott, statement and her writing views. Her writing process beliefs demonstrate proper writing materials. In the reading â€Å"Revision Strategies of Student W riters and Experienced Adult Writers† by Nancy Sommers, truly believes revision in writing and even speech isn’t a main strategy absent and for example we should be focusing on beginning sentences with a conjunction or ending a sentence with a preposition. Sommer, did continuously research on student writers for instance in Paragraph 6, 20 freshman at Boston and Oklahoma University with SAT scores range from 450-600 and dour main revision problems found to be was deletion, substitution, addition and reordering. Students advised Sommers, there term for revision is scratch out, do over again, reviewing, marking out and slashing out as for experienced writers they use a more proper term such as rewriting and revising. A valid point Sommers, points out is that students listen and just take teachers instructions with that being said teachers aren’t making revision a requirements. Students writers use a linear model there teacher provides while experienced writers use all theories and strategies of holistic perspective and recursive process using a