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Selected Works of Bruce Ballenger
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A Narrative Logic of the Personal Essay
The Writer's Chronicle (2018)
  • Bruce Ballenger, Boise State University
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Abstract
Unlike many fiction writers who focus on creating stories that render experience, essayists want to both render experience and discover its possible meanings, and this requires a structure that also encourages reasoning.
Keywords
  • creative nonfiction,
  • rhetoric and composition
Disciplines
Publication Date
March, 2018
Citation Information
Bruce Ballenger. "A Narrative Logic of the Personal Essay" The Writer's Chronicle (2018)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/bruce_ballenger/35/