June 8, 2007
The Power of 'I'
The first semester I taught developmental English at Santa Fe Community College, in New Mexico, I was sure I knew what my students needed to learn, and how to write a personal essay was certainly not it. I clearly remember my job interview at the college, sitting across from the program director, enthusiastically nodding as she presented the sequence of assignments, all of which were some type of personal narrative: an obstacle overcome, an important person and place encountered, a belief
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