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The struggle to find an open and honest voice in personal writing

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Lopate’s The Art of the Personal Essay is an expressive and explanatory piece that outlines the principles of informal writing. I feel that it does a very good job fleshing out the details of what will make a personal essay special and … Continue reading →

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Adhara Haque-Personal Essay

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In this course I hope to focus on many qualities of the personal essay that will bring out my writing. The first quality that I think is important is intimacy. There needs to be a connection formed between the writer and reader. A … Continue reading →

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Lopate

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After reading Lopate’s work on the personal essay, this writing style seems much more complex than I had previously imagined. To find an admirable balance between pride of self-distinction and genuine sincerity exists as a complex relationship in which the … Continue reading →

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Response to Lopate’s “The Art of the Personal Essay”

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Phillip Lopate’s introduction to “The Art of the Personal Essay” outlines several key facets of this intimate mode of expression. I found the “Honesty, Confession, and Privacy” section to be particularly interesting. These three pillars of the personal essay are … Continue reading →

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Which Quality I Want to Explore.

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I had a lot of trouble following what Lopate was trying to explain. There was a lot of information that I had to try to digest. I tried highlighting important lines I thought were significant to the points that Lopate … Continue reading →

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