Linkages of Nonfiction and Selfhood: The Places of Personal Essays.

Holmes, Leigh Howard

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ERIC Number: EJ642797

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2002

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Linkages of Nonfiction and Selfhood: The Places of Personal Essays.

Holmes, Leigh Howard

English Journal, v91 n4 p64-68 Mar 2002

Describes how nonfiction literary prose offers advantages that literary fiction does not by showing a sense of honesty that comes with a single voice telling things as they are seen by that person. Discusses important distinctions between personal essays and autobiographies. (SG)

Descriptors: Autobiographies, English Instruction, Nonfiction, Personal Narratives, Secondary Education, Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: Theme: The Truth about Nonfiction.