Getting Personal: Responding to Student Self-Disclosure
Janet Lucas

 While some scholars in English and other disciplines disparage personal narrative writing by students, it can serve as a conversational bridge between students’ home cultures and academic culture and as a contact zone where those cultures can clash yet be explored;however, instructors and others who work with student writing must be prepared to hear and respond empathetically to emotionally difficult revelations such as the one discussed in this essay.

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