Steve the Sophist

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

Sophistic Debate: Topic Archive

  • Is It Time To Abandon The Presidential Debates?

  • Three Movements in the Teaching of Uncertainty Rhetoric

  • An Idea for Using Everyday Photos in Teaching Speech

  • Debate and/is/as A Singularity

  • Is a Livestream Class a Good Idea? Doesn’t Seem to be for Me

  • A New-ish Course Description for Argumentation

  • A Course Description for a Class About Argumentation

  • Don’t Globalize the Journalist Epistemology

  • Evidence-Based Debate

  • The Fallacy of the Banned Public Speaking Class Topic

  • Bad Teaching, Bad Graduate Student Mentoring, Bad Pedagogy

  • The First Oral Assignments are Turned In and It Seems Like a Lot of Grading

  • The Maelstrom, Online Pedagogy, and Rhetoric

  • Doing What Works in Online University Teaching

  • The Trap of SlideWare in Preparing Online Instruction

  • Grades are the Finger, Look at the Moon!

  • A Case of Tarmac Rhetoric

  • A Case of Tarmac Rhetoric

  • Required Reading is Draconian and Stupid

  • COVID 19 isn’t killing the University, bad Stories Are

  • Teaching Online

  • Future Proof

  • Public Speaking Will Not Bend. Why?

  • Why Argument is Good for Us

  • Summer Potential

  • Being Wary of Debate Champions, Championships, and Debaters

  • Two Rhetorical Definitions of Protest

  • Is This the Time for Persuasion?

  • What Will Broadway Theater Look Like after the Quarantine?

  • Public Speaking Transformed, Part 1

  • Feeling Pretty Useless Today

  • Waiting on a Game to Download

  • Principles of Public Speaking

  • Rhetorical Insights for the Public

  • Sitting at the End of Public Speaking

  • Quarantine Inventory

  • Toward a Rhetorical Model of Debate

  • Three Principles for Online Pedagogy

  • A specific online debate class assignment

  • Holding Debates in Online Classes

  • Getting Ready

  • A Good Class

  • Book Sales, Academic Outsiders, and the Daily Habit

  • Fraught in a Mix of Disappointment, Sadness, and Anger

  • Sharing My Views on Public Speaking

  • Dangerous Classroom Assumption Three

  • Dangerous Classroom Assumption Two

  • Dangerous Classroom Assumption One

  • Mellow

  • Bookstores

  • Back from Houston

  • What kind of Television Show is a Presidential Debate?

  • Debates Do Not Solve Things

  • Summer Office

  • Thoughts about night one of the Democrat Debates

  • So I guess we are really doing these 10 person debates

  • Why Prepare for Work?

  • Taylor Swift and Good Research

  • Late to the Debate Party

  • NCA Reboot

  • The Rhetoric of Flash Drives and Archives

  • Gatekeeping Rhetoric

  • Mental Illness and Accomodation in The Classroom

  • Competitive Debate versus Tournament Debate

  • Jealous Much?

  • I like to make videos

  • Music

  • Ballance and Praxis in the Argumentation Curriculum

  • Balance and Praxis When Thrown Into Someone Else's Idea of a Debate Course

  • When Only A Sport Remains

  • March is for Visitors

  • The Goals of an Argumentation Course

  • Spring Break Ended, Sadly

  • The Start of Spring Break

  • Speaking about Speaking in Manhattan

  • Public Engagement

  • We Need Creative Platforming for Rhetoric

  • Rigid Virtues

  • Argumentation and Star Trek

  • Note Taking

  • Bird Box and Rhetoric

  • Another Semester of Public Speaking

  • Online Public Speaking

  • State of the Union 2019

  • Fallout 76 and the Lack of Creativity

  • Trump’s Immigration Address, The Democratic Response, and Rhetorical Criticism

  • Ahistorical Debate Corrosion

  • Debate’s Purpose

  • What Happened to Us?

  • A debate laboratory in Italy

  • Reflections in Place

  • I have no Chromebook Regrets

  • Debate Scholarship

  • Thanksgiving was Great & Full

  • Blog Only?

  • Glad to be at NCA

  • Baffled by Debates

  • Midterms at the Midterms

  • C-SPAN is so amazing so I practiced vlogging at their conference

  • For the Rhetoric & Composition teachers

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