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In “All Writing is Autobiography” Donald Murray wants readers to reconsider a construct that is present in many writing courses.  This construct involves the idea that writing should be impersonal.  Also, Murray discusses the concept that “we become what we write.”  This is the main idea of the article.  Two main points are crucial to explaining this.  First, a writer will always include autobiographical elements in his or her writing.  Second, whatever the author writes becomes true because it is written.  “We make our own history, our own legends, our own knowledge,” Murray explains, “ by writing our own knowledge by writing our autobiography.”  This concept is very important to writers in an introductory class to understand.  If we always try to stay objective in our writing, then we will not grow as people or as authors.