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Action, Experience, And Responsibility: Using I And We In High School Writing, Corinne Mccumber
Action, Experience, And Responsibility: Using I And We In High School Writing, Corinne Mccumber
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2018
In the field of composition studies, scholars often explore and debate how educators should train students to use the general forms of academic writing. Of particular interest, a trend has emerged in high schools where students are banned from using the words “I,” “me,” “we,” and “us” to avoid sounding subjective--even though composition studies scholars consistently employ these first-person pronouns for rhetorical effect. In this presentation, I closely examine how scholars use first-person pronouns in award-winning works. In particular, I show how scholars employ “I” and “we” to introduce personal examples, to call readers to action, and to reassert responsibility …