ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the personal or expressive writing. It describes some examples of teacher writing, not as models of excellence, but rather to highlight the uniqueness of personal experience and the quality of voice that articulates the experience in writing. The chapter describes the sustained writing, using some writing prompts that have been used over time, including Writing Workshops. It examines the close relationship between voice and identity. This chapter explains the Peter Elbow's understanding of such concepts as voice, identity, writing to know and be and self-expression. Elbows rhetorical strategy begins with a discussion of the literal, physical voice, which you and he would be using were we in the same room having a conversation. He talks about the five distinct senses of the voice concept applied metaphorically to something we hear in/through a written text. These are: audible voice or intonation; dramatic voice; recognizable or distinctive voice; voice with authority; resonant voice or presence.
