English Council of California Two-Year Colleges

Snippet from inside english, Volume 37 Number 1, Spring 2011

From Charles Hood’s (Antelope Valley College) “Why Do Students Use “I” Appropriately in Speech and Yet So Badly in Papers?”

“Fiction’s use of the first-person point-of-view differs slightly from these points; one very useful discussion of options for pov comes from Jerome Stern, Making Shapely Fiction. As he says, “First person is immediate, engaging, and instantly convincing. You create a distinctive voice, a character, a personality, with the first words of the story” (178). This applies to composition, so the book is worth knowing; his treatment of the tricky biz of second-person pov is one of the best there is.”

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