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Whether your desire to write about personal experience connects to a reason you can point to or not, you will have to ask yourself some questions before you begin: How will you shape this experience in language so that a reader can connect with it? What scaffolding will you build to support it? How can you arrange your information to leave the correct impression, make the biggest impact? These are questions of form and structure.
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Faulkner, S.L., Squillante, S. (2016). Form and Structure. In: Writing the Personal. Teaching Writing. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-384-1_2
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