Sunday, September 18, 2011
All Writing is Autobiography
This was the first article out of all of them we have had to read so far that I actually feel like I agree with the author. It's a very valid point that everything we write includes some bit of our own personal selves whether it be our morals, beliefs or feelings we're unsure we feel. They all appear and come out through writing as Donald M. Murray explains in his article titled, "All Writing is Autobiography". Within this article he brings up good points such as how no matter the subject matter, each piece of writing will turn out different. We all have different writing styles and like to decide where things fit into the message we are trying to convey through writing, so when we begin to write our Wikipedia pages we have to be sure not to include any personal testimony on pages we make. It all has to be factual, useful information, but no matter what each Wikipedia article will be slightly different and that's what makes it different from other encyclopedias.
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Your point makes me wander, if wikipedia is different because of the authors, then maybe those teacher we've had that don't let us use it are right.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you could make a case that Wikipedia is more interesting and "alive" than your run of the mill unbiased encyclopedia for sheer virtue of the fact that Wikipedia is authored by an inconceivably huge pool of writers.
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