Jacqueline Kulle
In this section written by Anne Lamont taken from her book, Bird by Bird, she explains the importance of writing "shitty first drafts", and how they will actually benefit the writer to excel in their work. All throughout high school, whenever I got assigned an essay to write, I would always try to make my first draft perfect so I would not have to revise it much in the future. This made a lot of my work unorganized, because I was spending a tedious amount on detail when the paragraphs were not even arranged yet. In my English course last semester, my teacher introduced the topic of writing a bad first draft. This made my work much more concise and understandable. Then after writing a bad first draft, the students would have two more drafts to make revisions. This technique helped me succeed even more in my writing. Just as Lamont explains, I agree that bad first drafts are vital to improve writing. This allows for the writer to make sure everything is organized how it should, and then detail and a stronger vocabulary can be incorporated later on.
In this section written by Anne Lamont taken from her book, Bird by Bird, she explains the importance of writing "shitty first drafts", and how they will actually benefit the writer to excel in their work. All throughout high school, whenever I got assigned an essay to write, I would always try to make my first draft perfect so I would not have to revise it much in the future. This made a lot of my work unorganized, because I was spending a tedious amount on detail when the paragraphs were not even arranged yet. In my English course last semester, my teacher introduced the topic of writing a bad first draft. This made my work much more concise and understandable. Then after writing a bad first draft, the students would have two more drafts to make revisions. This technique helped me succeed even more in my writing. Just as Lamont explains, I agree that bad first drafts are vital to improve writing. This allows for the writer to make sure everything is organized how it should, and then detail and a stronger vocabulary can be incorporated later on.
I also used to spend way too much time on my first drafts, which didn't do anything for me, except waste my time. I was never taught this strategy beforehand, but I am definitely also going to take this technique and use it to my advantage.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, I have had trouble with perfecting my first drafts, even though they didn't need to be perfected at all. It is refreshing to see firsthand that someone has benefited from using the "shitty first draft" strategy and I look forward to using it in my upcoming writings.
ReplyDeleteUntil recently, the concept of writing multiple drafts never occurred to me as something I desired to spend my time completing. I always preferred to write a paper and be done with it. Now I understand the importance of multiple revisions and will value this approach in the future.
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