Personal Experience Narrative and Public Debate: Writing the Wrongs of Welfare

College Composition and Communication Jun 2006

Personal Experience Narrative and Public Debate: Writing the Wrongs of Welfare

Lisa D. Brush ; Lorraine D. Higgins

Abstract

Personal narrative embeds the expertise of subordinated groups in stories that seldom translate into public debate. The authors describe a community writing project in which welfare recipients used personal narratives to enter into the public record their tacit and frequently discounted knowledge. The research illustrates the difficulties and possibilities “rhetorical, emotional, and material” of constructing narratives that “cross publics.”

Journal: College Composition and Communication
Published: 2006-06-01
DOI: 10.58680/ccc20065064
Topics: service learning

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