Abstract
Dedicated to Professor Peter Elbow 4/14/1935 – 2/6/2025
I, Marian, began my career as a graduate student in medieval literature who had a teaching assistantship to fund her degree. As a graduate student I lived in a world that saw writing as a noun, something done and finished, not as a verb, a process that shows us a world that is as ever-changing as we are. But as a writing teacher I found myself sliding into the world that writers inhabit, and
Recommended Citation
MacCurdy, Marian M. and Robinson, Sarah
(2025)
"“Narrative Medicine Saved My Life”: Writing Is a Verb as Well as a Noun,"
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning: Vol. 30
, Article 6.
https://doi.org/10.7290/jaepl30s2rc
Available at:
https://trace.tennessee.edu/jaepl/vol30/iss1/6
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