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Journal Article
Composing the Future
2019
Overview
Frequently, when I assign autobiographical essays to students (typically at the start of a semester), they respond with two contradictory yet equally potent responses-eagerness to discuss their favorite subject (themselves) accompanied by apathy toward composing yet another version of an assignment they have encountered numerous times in their academic careers. Perhaps the source of their antipathy lies in their limited life experience. Having not yet lived beyond their adolescence and having experienced life within the constraints of adolescent agency, just how interesting might they consider their own lives? According to Adolescent Literacy: A Policy Research Brief, adolescents rely on literacy in their identity development, using reading and writing to define themselves as persons. Moreover, discourse that allows students to envision themselves in the future can assist them in leveraging the development of identities and agency specific to practices and activities situated in historically contingent, socially enacted, culturally constructed worlds.
