Steve the Sophist

A professor of rhetoric shares his views and opinions on debate, argumentation, rhetoric.

Sophistic Debate: Topic Archive

  • How Do Students Evaluate Class Activities?

  • Free to Teach

  • How To Survive the Thanksgiving Political Arguments

  • Practice

  • What Else would the ICC be for?

  • Archiving and Backup

  • Opportune Weekend

  • Blogchive

  • Responding to the Recent U.S. Election

  • Is Debate about Serving Your Arguments, or Serving the Ends of Debate Itself?

  • I tried to make a voice post

  • LiveJournal

  • Bernie Sanders, X, and Essentialism

  • Spotify and Driving

  • We’re Doomed

  • Three Takes on the U.S. Presidential Election

  • Writing Studies

  • Working in the Library

  • New Job

  • An Argument

  • Bad Teacher

  • Rhetoric is too Important to be left to the institutional rhetoricians

  • Bad Teaching is Debate Coaching

  • The God Damn University Athletic Department

  • I Taught a Terrible Class Today

  • Don’t Listen to Debate Coaches about Political Debates

  • Future Rhetoric

  • Up Early With a Dog

  • Nothing Quite Like WordPress

  • President Biden's State of the Union, 2024

  • Recent Reflections on Rhetoric

  • The Activity

  • Who is Policy Debate For? (Part 5)

  • The Rhetorical Demise of Twitch

  • "Why Don't You Talk About The Book?"

  • Incapacity in the Classroom: A Dialectical View

  • Who is Policy Debate For (Part 4)

  • Composition and Public Speaking

  • The Relationship between Debate and Argument

  • The Eternal Sunshine of Public Forum Debate

  • Who is Policy Debate For? (Part 3)

  • I want no hand in teaching a Jenna Ellis

  • Week of October 23

  • Who is Policy Debate For? (Part 2)

  • Who is Policy Debate For? (Part 1)

  • Keynote Addresses

  • My Old Teachers

  • ISSA Leiden Reflections Part 2

  • Reflecting on ISSA Leiden

  • Return of the impressed

  • Debate is not Argumentation; Arguments are Not Debates

  • A Conference In Qatar

  • What is a Good Student?

  • What should be taught in a class?

  • Blossoming Anger

  • What to Believe about ChatGPT

  • Summer Calling

  • Departments of Misreading

  • The Format of Social Justice

  • Post Lockdown Pedagogy Part 4

  • Is this a Podcast or a Vlog?

  • Post Lockdown Pedagogy, Part 3

  • Debate Avoidance

  • Post Lockdown Pedagogy, Part 2

  • A Sophistic View of Chat GPT

  • Post-Lockdown Pedagogy, Part 1

  • I can be a compositionist

  • Stating the Union; Unionizing Statements

  • The Shortest Month of the Year Begins

  • I Have No Class

  • Arguing for/about/with Speakers

  • It's 2023

  • Merry Christmas

  • Debate's Worst Form

  • NCA in New Orleans

  • What Debate Unfortunately Looks Like Today

  • What Should Good Debate Look Like?

  • Against Peer Review

  • September Habits

  • Student Sediment

  • Post Game Analysis on My Most Popular Rhetoric Lecture on YouTube

  • What Does it Mean for AI to Debate?

  • Two Debate Events

  • April 19th Vlog

  • Great Lecturing

  • The Republicans Withdrew from the Presidential Debates

  • Speaking Like a University

  • Another Video

  • Abraham Lincoln vs. Frederick Douglass

  • In Which I Experiment With Video

  • Is Equivocation Fallacious?

  • Meme-ing

  • I Had To Be Honest

  • The State of the State of the Union

  • Zelenskyy's Rhetoric

  • University Blues

  • Teaching Against Technology

  • What Does Good Open Debate Look Like?

  • Reflection and Rhetoric

  • The Rebooting Semester

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