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Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author's role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge.

Gayle Letherby , in Feminist Research in Theory and Practice
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Ultimately, then, creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of established forms but in the imaginative use of them.

Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein
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