A Plague of Tics

I really liked this short story. It wasn't what I thought it was going to be about from just reading the title. Sedaris showed how to keep his personal voice in his writing by writing about his obsessive compulsive behavior in detail and was not ashamed to tell it. It made me realize how I should, when I am writing, to make sure that my voice does not get lost in my writing. Sedaris let us know that this story was about him and wanted to tell his story. He gave good examples of him being hilarious at times, like when he would count each step on the way home from school, or he would lick every light switch that he passed. He put his voice out their but he also made it in an intertaining way to keep the reader in his writing. It made think that when I write my research paper I cannot lose my voice in all the information. My voice is as important as the information that I will be providing. My voice can show my opinion or even tell a story that can help support my paper even better. Plus it will make it more appealing to the reader if I use my voice because no one likes to read a paper that is all information.