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ARTICLE ANALYSIS Both of the articles â€Å"Dancing with Professors† by Patricia Limerick and â€Å"Shitty First Drafts† by Anne Lamott resolve the issues faced by college students when writing papers. The first article, â€Å"Dancing with Professors,† explains why college professors expect more elaborate papers even though they assign dull and un-motivational reading to their students. On the other end of the writing spectrum, â€Å"Shitty First Drafts† explains how valuable the first draft is to students, and why students should not feel weary about writing them. In Patricia Limerick’s article â€Å"Dancing with Professors†, she argues the problems that college students must face in the present regarding writing. Essays are daunting to most college students, and given the typical lengths of college papers, students are not motivated to write the assigned essays. One of the major arguments in Limerick’s article is how â€Å"It is, in truth, difficult to persuade students to write well when they find so few good examples in their assigned reading.† To college students, this argument is true with most of their ...