"Student Metaphors of Themselves as Writers" is an excerpt about a teacher assigning students to write metaphors about themselves.  He has see many kinds of metaphors such as, fear and courage, control, and silence.  The article is organized by telling about the students assignments, explaining how some metaphors are conceived and paced out, gives the different types of metaphors, and shows that metaphors can be a way of observing diverse people.  Each section of the article gives an example of a specific kind of metaphor and then gives examples.  The sections help provide the reader with the idea that when people create metaphors about themselves, and someone else reads it to get familiar with the writer's personality.