“…As is stated in the quote which appears at the head of this chapter, I acknowledge that other voices have enabled mine, and I give them credit in the third chapter, "but no longer can I subordinate mine to theirs" (Sommers, 1992, p. 29). The essays I have read on academic writing (Clark & Wiedenhaupt, 1992;Geisler, 1992;Sommers, 1992) encourage changing the traditional academic form to incorporate personal voice. A similar change is also occurring in the field of anthropology, especially in participant/observer studies (Geertz, 1988).…”