Jennifer Machuca
Mrs.Cunningham
AP Language and Composition
01 October 2015
Rhetorical Precis
Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” selection (1994) argues that writing takes a process and the first step is to write a shitty first draft. Lamott accomplishes this by labeling “the fantasy of the uninitiated”is the thought people have when they read a great essay or book.Lamott uses this label in order to acknowledge that writing a great article or piece of literature is part of a process.Lamott is writing to those people who think authors are made to write a masterpiece in 3 hours or less.

Summary Great final drafts are not easy, it takes a process. The main step to this is to create what