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Writing Your Way

I found this article interesting because it is fascinating to read about how important self-reflection can be in a person's life. Expressive writing allows for one to express where they have been, what they have done, and what they have learned from those experiences. This process allows one to spot bad habits or patterns in their own lives, and shut down that behavior before it becomes destructive.

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Sayer

I found it interesting that the autobiography is the first form of literature that comes out of the Americas. Before any novel or play, there were autobiographies or colonial accounts of life in the new world. I had never thought of the autobiography as a distinction of American literature, but Sayer’s point about the autobiography being “one of the oldest forms of American writing” does seem to be true as he lists a number of important text in American literature that are all autobiographies.