In Lamott's essay I think she used the word shitty to show that first drafts are going to be awful. They're not really going to be coherent but they will have everything you could possibly think about the subject down on paper where you can't forget it. Afterward you can edit it to decide what is relevant and what isn't.
I think for our research papers the fact that we are doing it all in sections first is like doing a shitty first draft. It's a way to get all the information on each section down without having to think about the rest of them at the same time. After we've gotten each section just how we like them we can connect them to the other sections to make a better paper.
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