Title: Legal Storytelling: The Theory and the Practice - Reflective Writing Across the Curriculum
Abstract: Pull up a chair. Let me tell you a story. I was listening to NPR’s Humankind program. A professor of education asked his class to write an autobiographical piece. At the end of the class in which he gave the assignment, a student hesitantly approached him and asked, “Is it ok if we use the word ‘I’ in our paper?” The professor said that he almost burst out laughing, because it seemed like such a silly question, but he was glad that he didn’t, because he might have hurt this student who had made himself vulnerable by asking the question. So the professor just said, “Yes, that is fine. In fact, I don’t think you could do this assignment without using the word ‘I’ quite a bit. But I’m curious, why do you ask?” The student replied, “Well, I’m a history major, and every time we use the word ‘I’ in any paper, they mark us down a full letter grade.”1
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-03-02
Language: en
Type: article
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