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Writing Our Academic Selves: The Literacy Autobiography as Performance
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2018
- pp. 279-293
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
Our academic identities are constructed performatively through writing. In this article, I use the concept of citationality to examine two literacy autobiographies: one by a published writer and one written by a student of mine. My reading of these narratives exposes a connection between the citing of academic sources and the mechanisms that underlie the construction of new identities.