write a 1-1.5 page essay in response to the prompt below (10 points).
From Don Bialostoskys essay, Liberal Education, Writing, and the Dialogic Self:
Voice, as I am defining it, is not so much a matter of how my language relates to me as it is a matter of how my language relates to your language and to the language of others you and I have heard address our topic. Voice is never something speakers have before they speak but something they create by defining a relation to the other voices that have already opened the discussion and to those that wait to enter into it. I amand my selfis created in the course of my assimilating, responding to, and anticipating the voices of others. Language, from the time I first begin to hear it from my parents and siblings and friends and teachers, is always somebody elses first and becomes mine without entirely losing its otherness. (13)
What Bialostosky appears to be saying about voice in the passage above is perhaps a bit different than what most people might say about it. Write an essay in which you explain the following:
What Bialostosky is saying about voice:
Using phrases like Bialostosky believes/argues/advocates/etc., give a detailed explanation of his argument that would make sense to a person outside of this class. Explain what you believe Bialostoskys position to be, incorporating the occasional quote, and offering some examples of how his thoughts about voice might translate to a real-world situation.
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