Anne Lamott's Shitty First Draft

In the essay, “Shitty First Draft” Anne Lamott addresses the process of writing first drafts and improving them through a series of editss. She discusses the struggles, professional writers experience in order to produce outstanding works. The audience of this essay would be all passionate writers who strive to make their writing better. Similarly, the audience could also be the ordinary citizens that struggle to begin their first draft and afraid of inserting their expressions into writing. Lamont instructs the readers that in order to produce better writing, it is crucial to make corrections and revise the work. She appeals to the audience because she is a professional in the field of writing given the fact that Lamott had published numbers …show more content…
Lamott’s writing style of this essay is composed of both persuasive paragraphs and personal stories. The combination of these styles makes this essay more appealing to readers because the persuasive paragraphs encourage us to not place a limit on our thought process while the stories augment her position. The use of this genre creates an encouraging tone throughout the essay and persuade readers to improve their writing through revisions. Additionally, Lamott uses ethos to support her argument. The readers are informed about Lamott’s fame or expertise as a writer that she used to write food reviews for a magazine appeals to the audience. On the contrary, her argument could have been stronger if she had added accounts of other writers who have a similar opinion about writing. This is because hearing from different perspectives convey the overall message more …show more content…
This is because Orwell uses examples such the German scientist or the story British and American Physicist to appeal to his audience. In Orwell’s writing style, it can be noted that he frequently challenges the conventional wisdom and advocates methods and logic to solving problems. On the other hand, Lamott’s essay is comprised of personal events. Lamott explains how she approaches writing the first draft and methods to make it perfect. She does not provide a different perspective other than her own to make reader convince that revisions make writing better. However, I must consider her experience as a writer to accept her argument. Overall, both Orwell and Lamott’s essay provides sufficient evidence to convince the reader, but Orwell’s essay takes more scientific approach to make a conclusion about his