Personally Speaking
Experience As Evidence in Academic Discourse
Will be published approx. on 31. October 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-8093-2590-0 (ISBN)
Description
Responding to contemporary discussion about using personal accounts in academic writing, this book draws on classical and current rhetorical theory, feminist theory, and relevant examples from both published writers and first-year writing students to illustrate the advantages of blending experiential and academic perspectives.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
253 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-2590-0 (9780809325900)
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Candace Spigelman is an associate professor at Penn State University, Berks-Lehigh Valley College, where she serves as the co-coordinator of Professional Writing. She is the author of Across Property Lines: Textual Ownership in Writing Groups and the recipient of the 2002 Richard Ohmann Award for her article, ""Argument and Evidence in the Case of the Personal,"" in College English.