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Title: "Bird by Bird " would be a perfect English Composition text.
Review: I wish that I would have known about Anne Lamott while teaching Freshman Composoition. What a great textbook, "Bird by Bird" would be starting with "shitty first drafts." So many times one sentence in a student's paper shone, "That's what your paper is about," I would say, or "What a great idea," or "I hear your voice here." As Lamott points, out all that writing was worth one good sentence and perhaps is the only way to achieve it - get the words down, even if most are cast away in a later draft. "Bird by Bird" provides guidelines for the writing process from a writer who has been there.
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