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OK - not fair. I graduated high school in 1974. 😎
I do remember that I was not to ever use "I". Now I am going to break off from that thinking and use the information found in our assigned essay. The persuasive essay which I have attempted to write will make far better sense if "I" is used. Maddalena states in her essay "First person can help you express, very simply, who "says" what" (183).
Maddalena, Kate. ""I need you to say 'I'": Why First Person Is Important in College Writing." Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, edited by Charles Lowe et al., Parlor Press, 2010, pp. 180-189.
Oh … I don't know that high school has changed all that much since 1974 -- at least, not the writing instruction. Writing teachers are giving lots of the same advice now as back then. We still have some bad habits to break.
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