2 Dillard’s writing style in the essay serves to —

Explanation:

The Norton Sampler begins by featuring two essays that provide a glimpse of the writing process as it unfolded for Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard. Dillard's writing serves two important purposes that can be helpful for the novice writer; her "Moth" essay are the kind of wonderful writing that is both enjoyable to read and interesting to dissect, as it were, in order to think about the writing process. In the second essay, Dillard reveals for us writing process at work, its fundamental ties to both her own personal history and circumstances and to her active and diligent devotion to the hard work of writing. The essays below supplement these essays with more examples of her writing and information about her life, as well as reviews that help us to look at her writing, and perhaps our own with a critical eye.

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