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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
Butler, Sydney J.; Bentley, T. Roy – 1990
Lifewriting is a form of autobiographical composition in which the non-expert, or even the beginning writer, tries to capture on paper the raw experiences of a lifetime. The intersections between family history and social or political events provide one set of starting points for the lifewriter who sets out on the neverending journey to capture a…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Lifelong Learning
