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'The article offers the author's insight on the author biographies which offer a brief summary of the life and achievements of an author that is usually in the third person. He says that the biography serves different rhetorical purposes including as an information-sharing, promotion, and establishment of authority and relatability. He discusses topics on author biographies including the jocularity in biographies, the personal decision what to write in a biography, and writer Courteney Hocking.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Overland no. 217 Summer 2014 8136666 2014 periodical issue 2014 pg. 20-21
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