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Download full textDuym, Virginia – 1997
If personal writing empowers students to hear their own voices and to "see themselves as writers," then personal writing has value for basic writing students, whose voices have tended to be silenced and who see themselves as anything but writers. From hearing their voices in writing, and from identifying multiple sources and rhetorical…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Writing, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
