Empowering Expression: Nurturing Voice in Student Writing

"Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul."

- Meg Rosoff

“Our expectations and experience shapes us. When we write we must find a voice that expresses our sentient self, not some idealized version of a cogent self, devoid of the exacting life-altering lessons that come with enduring a variety of experiences.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster

“It is what you don’t write that frequently gives what you do write its power.”

- Toni Morrison

Kean University Writing Project