Quality of writing improves when writers write about what they know, what they have experienced. Teachers need to coach developing writers to discover and craft their personal stories to impart the joy and power of writing. Memoir writing leads to more meaningful writing.Through memoir writing, writers can learn strategies and skills that will transfer to all types of writing. All children, most especially adolescents, like to write about themselves. Memoir entices students, especially reluctant writers, to write. Writers become better writers by writing. And memoir writing becomes a journey of self-discovery. As writers learn about themselves while “researching” and writing their memoirs, memoir writing becomes inquiry. But the most important reason our writers can write is to discover who they are and to reflect on the people, places, objects and mementos, and events that made them the persons they are and the adults they will become. We write for many reasons-to entertain, to inform, to persuade, to enlighten, to show what we learned, to find out what we know.
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