Hello all. This isn't one of the actual blog assignments, but I found these two links about distinguishing personal essays from memoirs and other genres. I know I was confused about the personal essay/memoir divide and figured these links might be useful to others in the class with the same problem. Hope they are of use! Otherwise, forgive me for dirtying this blog space with my spam.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/753/02/
http://writersrelief.com/blog/2013/11/short-prose-genres-defining-essay-short-story-commentary-memoir-and-mixed-genre/
I found your links really helpful in clarifying the differences. It is confusing! So thanks for sharing :)
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