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Direct linkO'Leary, Maureen Ellen – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2007
As a professor of English at Diablo Valley College in northern California where she teaches a variety of writing and literature courses, the author finds her students' essays so often lack not only shape and drama, but the ring of emotional truth as well. Their "life" stories are lifeless and their "true" stories sound somehow…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Writing Instruction, Autobiographies, Story Grammar
