TY - JOUR T1 - Personal Genres, Public Voices JF - College Composition and Communication Y1 - 2008 A1 - Danielewicz, Jane KW - agency KW - authority KW - autobiography KW - composition KW - genre KW - pedagogy AB - Writing in personal genres, like autobiography, leads writers to public voices. Publicvoice is a discursive quality of a text that conveys the writer’s authority and position relative to others. To show how voice and authority depend on genre, I analyze the autobiographies of two writers who take opposing positions on the same topic. By producing texts in genres with recognizable social functions, student writers gain agency. VL - 59 SP - 420–450 N1 - + pdf ER -