College Composition and Communication Dec 2001

Revealing Silence: Rethinking Personal Writing

Anne Ruggles Gere

Abstract

Silence has positive as well as negative attributes, and composition teachers can help students understand and use its aesthetic, ethical, and political resources in their personal writing. Approaching silence in these ways can establish new alignments among the expressivist, psychoanalytical, and social discourses that circulate around the term personal writing.

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College Composition and Communication
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2001-12-01
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10.58680/ccc20011448
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