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Peer reviewedBoegeman, Margaret Byrd – College English, 1980
Defends personal writing in the college classroom against charges that it is informal, exclusively narrative, nonutilitarian, uncritical, and solipsistic. (DD)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, College Freshmen, Creative Writing, Higher Education
Download full textBoegeman, Margaret Byrd – 1978
In order to minimize the dread which students and teachers alike often feel toward freshman composition courses, it is important to involve students in reading and writing assignments which are of interest and importance to them. Autobiography, as a subject for study and a focus for writing, can be a great motivator and an expediter of the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Course Content
