Reading Response To Anne Lamott's Shitty First Draft

As an English learner, I have experienced many challenges during the learning process, yet I haven’t given up my hope. Writing had always been one of my difficult challenges, but the desire inside of me learning new things always push me to accept the challenges. In fact, learning a new language stays always challenging to every person. However, English 111 class has taught me many things that I never thought I will do it. The first assignment that we did a reading response to Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Draft” has taught me that people learn from their mistakes, and nobody is perfect. Lamott says, “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something -- anything -- down on paper.”After reading this article I was encouraged to work hard on …show more content…
When it comes to writing an essay, I always hate and ignore because I didn’t know how to develop a paragraph. Moreover, I thought that reading and writing have completely a different task in writing an essay. However, after taking English 111, I come to know that reading and writing are equally important to form a beautiful essay. The fundamental knowledge I get in this class is that reading is important because it helps to create an argument and write an essay. Similarly, from English 111 class I learned lots of new things like creating an argument, writing rhetorical analysis essay and writing synthesis essay. The most unbelievable develops of me in this class was able to write seven paragraph essays. In addition, the new and wonderful things I learned in this class was logos, ethos, and pathos appeals, and using these appeals to create a beautiful understanding paragraph. Another improvement is my ability to point out multiple complexities within a text, instead of sticking to one-sided arguments in my papers. Furthermore, learning how to cite the sources in my writing and its