Read Donald Murray's "All Writing is Autobiography." Then respond to the following prompt:
Remember that one of the goals of this chapter is to help you consider constructs about writing that poorly describe how writing actually works. What construct is Murray asking you to reconsider?
150 words on your blogs before class Wednesday 4/4.
For this response, I want you all to practice integrating a quote from the article into one of your sentences. Here are a few examples you might try to emulate:
In "All Writing is Autobiography," Murray argues that a writer's "autobiography grows from a few deep taproots that are set down into our past in childhood" (58).
"That is the terrible, wonderful power of reading," Donald concludes, "the texts we create in our own minds while we read...become part of the life we believe we lived" (65).
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