As Faigley makes clear, introductory writing
courses very often
use assignments which require writers to share personal
experiences in an
ahistorical and apolitical fashion:
Both the writer and potential readers are removed from any
specific setting
and are represented as living outside of history and having no
investment in
particular issues. (15)
My project requires students to draw upon
personal experience in a
different way;
the electronic autobiography bridges the binary of personal
experience and
conceptual knowledge, which are usually separated or
hierarchialized.
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