Mission Statement: We are determined to simplify the critical jargon presented in the Tool Kit of Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson's book "Reading Autobiography"in order to provide to all those in the Blogosphere a way of interpreting and analyzing autobiographies (or "Self Life Writing") in an effective and simple manner while additionally providing our own real life examples.
Hello class and world!
Upon closer exploration of our blog you will see that we have provided our own definitions of each item from the Tool Kit and a concrete textual example, as well as a personal account from our own lives that demonstrates the ideas presented at the beginning of each post. Thus, you will sense a definitive pattern to our posts. Definition, textual example, personal experience.
We decided to do this project because we wanted to give a clear definitive answer to some of the many questions put forth by Sidonie and Smith. What we mean by this is simply that the Tool Kit consists of questions for inquisitive readers to ask him/herself when reading an autobiographical text and our Tool Kits consists of answers in regards to the specific texts we have read supported by critical and creative examples.
You'll notice that the posts will, for the most part have the same date. This is because we are working as a group and doing a good portion of these posts on our own and have decided to review them all together at the end and decide as a team what order to post them in based on relativity to one another. We hope that this blog will serve as a cohesive study guide for ourselves, the class, and the external readers of the blog.
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