Why We Assign the Personal Essay
(Pedablogue) Good food for thought: Clancy Ratliff posts a wonderful 'Collection of Good and Not-So-Good Reasons for Assigning a Personal Narrative as the First Essay in a Composition Course' on the CultureCat weblog.
If I understand it correctly, Ratliff is
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