ABSTRACT
Two voices exist inside our heads, according to Jane Tompkins (1988). The first is the logical thinker who wants to get it right, “correct a mistake” (p. 169). The other wants to tell a story about herself, “write about her feelings” (p. 169). According to Tompkins, a literary critic, these two voices are split apart by professional discourse: “The problem is that you can't talk about your private life in the course of doing your professional work” (p. 169).
