Personal Genres, Public Voices

标题Personal Genres, Public Voices
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsDanielewicz, Jane
JournalCollege Composition and Communication
音量59
Pagination420–450
关键词agency, authority, autobiography, composition, genre, pedagogy
Abstract

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.