The Power of 'I'.

The article focuses on the author's experience of her first semester teaching developmental English at New Mexico's Santa Fe Community College. She recounts her interview with the school's program director where she had been given an assignment list with different types of personal narratives. The author believed she could teach her students "real" analytical writing as opposed to focusing on narration. She compares her students to those described in the book "The Twilight of American Culture," by Morris Berman. She discusses her rationale for the narrative approach in writing along with her students' transformations.