Chapters 5 and 6 consider the writing workshop as the public forum for the students' writing. Chapter 7 considers the private context that the teacher and researcher created to allow the girls to express their personal voices through writing. Chapter 8 also deals with private expression. Chapter 9 explores critical response to the writing of the girls in the class, and the final chapter explores further research about the writing process. If the voices of these preadolescent girls are heard, they can become powerful voices about the urban childhood experience.
Appendixes discuss methodology and the ethics of ethnographic research.
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