Virginia Woolf Villette . Charlotte Bronte A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius . The Bedford Handbook . The Craft of Research . One of the ways to increase our subjectivity and our sense of agency is to write.
Writing helps clarify values, thinking, and feeling.
Analyzing our own writing gives us a view of where we are, who we are, and where we need or want to go. But a self is not a solitary entity. We are connected to each other. Writing enables us to communicate our thoughts and feelings, to put them into play, to allow others to respond, validate, and transform them. Writing contributes to the communities that sustain us.