Murray tells us in this piece that no matter what style of writing is produced by an author; whether it is poetry, fiction, essay, or a textbook it is autobiographical. We as humans when writing construct our writing in a personalized way. It is impossible to completely weed out personalization; rather it is ever present and is what creates the dynamic aspect of writing and reading. When looking at writing in this fashion and then examining the encyclopedia or Wikipedia it starts to create a new dimension to those specific writings. How a topic is explain or defined is done in a specific manner which is suppose to be neutral so how do the writers allow there autobiographical aspect of writing leak out? I believe that through how they present a topic and how they might explain one part of the topic perhaps more in depth than another part creates it own personalization and unique aspect that is specific to that individual.
I agree a lot with your post, especially the last sentence. I think that the more defined a paper may be, the more personal it will become. We all grew up with different backgrounds and different teachers so we all write differently than one another. While we all use the same grammar and syntax, we say things differently. If professor Vetter gave us all the same topic to write about it would all come out differently. In that sense I guess you could say all writing is autobiographical.
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