"All Writing is Autobiography" by Donald Murray 9-10-14

2.)According to Murray, everything written by someone has a little taste/feel of them in it. Whether its a research paper or not. There will always be some aspect of a writer in their text. It could be expressed through the sophisticated words they use, their sentence structure, or even something like the titles or headings they chose. Murray categorizes autobiographies by distinguishing peoples views or what the people have experiences in life. (I feel as if both of these questions are the same.)

5.) Murray's implications would make me think of the authors feelings or life “stories” of whatever I'm reading. If every written piece is considered an autobiography, then each writer/author has a story or a little piece of them behind what they're writing. Knowing this, I would probably write a little differently. Depending on the subject/topic, I would probably wonder “why I'm writing about this specifically” or “what events have led to my view/opinion on this.”

6.) Reviewing my older papers/texts and their autobiographical “standards” it seems that depending on the subject I was just supposed to have “research.” When looking at the different aspects of “autobiographical” writing though, I am able to see patterns in my sentence structure as well as the words used in those papers, that do in fact add character.