Walker Gibson notes, “We do not select our words simply in recognition of outer circumstances, but also to satisfy inner desires. It’s in this sense that the name of our subject, composition, bears extra meaning, with huge implications of freedom and responsibility. By composing our language we compose ourselves, and while there are other ways of presenting ourselves to the world, our language remains the most persuasive, the most delicate, the best way we have for defining ourselves†(17).
Gibson, Walker. “The ‘Speaking Voice’ and the Teaching of Composition.†Ed. Elbow. 11-17.
