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Peer reviewedMcCarthey, Sarah J. – Language Arts, 1994
Suggests that personal writing poses both opportunities and risks in writing classrooms. Discusses the experiences of two children in a fifth/sixth-grade writing process classroom. Notes that benefits of personal writing are opportunities for authenticity, finding voice, and a therapeutic value; whereas risks include coercion of students who are…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Intermediate Grades
