PB2B

Whether you are playing tennis or dancing or writing a paper there are specific moves that you need to do for each in order to succeed in them. In writing moves take on a role that consumes the paper as a whole, since the author is trying to get their point across. In specific I will focus on the tone of the authors as well as on the diction, word usage, and the audience that the authors used and had in mind. The two articles that will be analyzed are “Shitty First Drafts” and “How to Read Like a Writer.” Each of the articles are composed of multiple moves whether they are the tones, word usage, or diction; the two articles have faults, but nonetheless succeed in the end. 

Furthermore, the tone differs quite vastly from one another. The tone that emerged in “Shitty First Drafts”(SFD) was a playful comedic tone. The author Anne Lamott admitted in the article that she is not a perfect writer and that it takes her many times to try to perfect one of her pieces of writing. The terminology that points out to a joking tone are “First drafts are child’s drafts” and “Either type, or kill yourself.” The first quotes gives a sense of playfulness as the author knows it takes baby steps to create a great paper. Likewise, the second quote gives a tone of frustration, but fooling around as well because many authors want to be able to write non-stop without having to revise their paper or read over it. The tone worked for this paper because the overall message and title for the SFD was already starting off as a joking theme. However, the message got put through in the end the article. 

Moreover, in “How to Read Like a Writer” the author Mike Bunn used various forms of writing in order to secure a tone of support as well as an informative tone along with that. The tone that is evoked with the words “Considering, Questioning, and Deciding” help solidify the authors’s intentions of informing his audience in how to read like a writer. Along with that, the author used “You are already an author” and “Are you ready to start reading?” to evoke a sense of familiarity. The author uses this technique in order to become closer with his audience and make them feel that even though the process of reading like a writer is difficult, it can be done. Overall, the author did his best in order to inform the reader with many techniques in order to find why a writer wrote something and gave advice on how people should be able to find little methods in which people write their pieces. 

Similar to the tone the two authors used distinct words and diction in order to get their point across. Anne Lamott as mentioned above took a comedic turn in her writing and the tittle itself gives a sense of fun and reliability. The writer also used terminology that surpassed the playfulness of the tone as she mentioned “All good writing begins with terrible first efforts” which gives a feeling that she is joking around in her article, but her main focus is centered on the idea of teaching people. As she indicates “Writing is not rapturous” her shift focuses on the aspect that it takes time to perfect a piece and that this will not always be achieved on the first try. Her diction is thus switching from an informal manner to a helpful manner which helps to make her paper understandable and relatable to many people. Mike Bunn best usage in the piece was his use of repetition among the paragraph that he used to describe what were the different aspects of the piece of writing. By using this method the author is able to explain each intricate step in which a person can analyze a small piece of writing. Also this helped so that the reader would not be overwhelmed with information and would be able to solely focus on that main paragraph. Mike Bunn’s method and reuse of the same paragraph for the his explanation in the end helped me greatly understand what he meant about reading like a writer. The two authors greatly used their methods in order to help push through their ideas which in the end worked best for them. 

Lastly, the audience that was intended for both of them was I believe the same. Since the two are both articles at different lengths, they seem as if they are intended to be for college writers who want to better their writing techniques. The two pieces greatly help as Lamott’s is intended to assist a writer in the idea that writing more than one rough draft is better. While Bunn’s article is intended to help a student analyze a piece of writing as a formula of some sort instead of a stream of letters. The two pieces in the end shared similar moves in which they both attracted the audience by using different moves to attract them.