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Lopate, Phillip.  "Writing Personal Essays: on the necessity of turning oneself into a character" from Writing Creative Nonfiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs, Carolyn Forche, Phillip Gerard, editors.  Cincinnati : Story Press, 2001, Pg.69-72.

Lopate, Phillip.  "Writing Personal Essays: on the necessity of turning oneself into a character" from Writing Creative Nonfiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs; Carolyn Forche, Phillip Gerard, editors.  Cincinnati : Story Press, 2001, Pg. 69-72.

Sanders, Scott Russell.  "The Singular First Person" from Secrets of the Universe: Scenes from the Journey Home.  Boston : Beacon Press, 1991, Pg.187-204.

Prompt 2 - Every picture tells a story

Winik, Marion.  "Sixteen Pictures of My Father" from Telling.  New York, New York : Vintage Books, 1994. Pg. 26-32.

Rodriguez, Richard.  "Proofs" from In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction, Judith Kitchen, Mary Paumier Jones, editors.  New York : W.W. Norton, 1996, Pg. 48-54.

Sedaris, David.  "Let It Snow" from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.  New York : Little Brown, 2004, Pg.13-16.