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Blogchive
I think I’ve finally done it. I’ve finally added the archive of every blogpost I’ve ever done (with a few exceptions) to this site. I think the earliest post here is now 2005 or 2006, when I was still studying rhetoric at the University of Pittsburgh. There’s not a lot of interesting stuff back in…
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Is Debate about Serving Your Arguments, or Serving the Ends of Debate Itself?
Debate’s structure makes structural demands on speakers. When entering a debate, one enters carrying the immense ideological weight of what you think a debate should look like. All the debates you’ve seen, all that you have thought debate is and should be, every debate you’ve hated and enjoyed – we all walk into the debate…
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Writing Studies
Writing studies seems so much more serious than anything going on in speech communication rhetoric to me these days. I think what’s most attractive is the focus on the idea of pedagogy. This requires the assumption that people can change if we give them opportunity to do so, and that opportunity exists in the carefully…
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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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