Author: Steve
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I Taught a Terrible Class Today
I thought the class would be great. Why was it so bad? First of all, what’s a bad class? Definitions abound! I would say for me a bad class means: I should have prepared differently. I should have spent more time thinking about the material, which was very familiar to me. The death of good…
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Don’t Listen to Debate Coaches about Political Debates
There’s no reason to listen to debate coaches when they are interviewed by the media on Presidential debates or any election debates. The reason is obvious: Collegiate or High-School debate has no connection to political debating. Debate coaches love attention and love being in the media. The reason they are trusted on these matters is…
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Future Rhetoric
A Lot is going on right now for me this September and it’s all rotating around the idea of the future of rhetoric. Got a very interesting call for papers for the journal Informal Logic about a special issue on this topic. Got an email from the President of the University about downsizing and the…
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Up Early With a Dog
My life has radically changed since I was last blogging. I moved to the suburbs, got a dog, a partner, a car, and I’m up before the sun. My partner gets up early for work so I get up pretty early too. I think it’s nice to have some time in the morning together. As…
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Nothing Quite Like WordPress
Looks like I’m back on BlueHost typing away. Watching a little football today and got nostalgic for my old WordPress site. So here we are again, three years later, doing it. I have a number of substack posts that I might import but then again why? I will probably just rewrite them with some edits…
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Recent Reflections on Rhetoric
We are in the midst of hiring, and it’s a lot of work. It seems like all my time has evaporated between this and trying to make some very new approaches to teaching (which aren’t satisfying). The approaches to teaching I’m trying are based on a deep distrust of my intuitive ways of approaching the…
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The Rhetorical Demise of Twitch
Twitch might not be around much longer. Amazon announcing that they are cutting 35% of their workforce is grim news indeed. It is hard for me to believe it’s doing so poorly since I have always thought Twitch was an underdeveloped idea. I was very lucky to talk to Twitch staff years ago by offering…
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