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ERIC Number: EJ261299
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1982-Apr
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Why I Wanted My Students to Lose Their Voices.
Sloan, Gary
English Journal, v71 n4 p31-33 Apr 1982
Describes and illustrates a writing assignment in which students assume the role and the voice of someone they perceive as different from themselves, requiring attention to appropriate--not necessarily "correct"--language styles. (RL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Language Styles, Literary Styles, Secondary Education, Writing Exercises, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Tone (Language); Voice (Rhetoric)