I'll look for that. Think of the ways we can unconsciously construct first year writing students just by what we say about them or what we think of them. Or from another angle, what if we all promised not to say negative things about students. How would that affect what we do as teachers. Think about it.
Readers have difficulty separating the author from the narrator.
I think this is a by-product of an expressivist viewpoint. But think back to one of your earlier ROs where you talked about the conference with a student over the personal experience paper and memory, etc. Worse, they internalize the term. In our society, remedial is bad. Too many people equate remedial with stupid.