Steve the Sophist

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

Sophistic Debate: Topic Archive

  • Weekend Waste?

  • Perspective by Incongruity

  • Vlogging or Blogging?

  • We Decide Supreme Court Appointments in the Worst Way

  • Montana is a Great Place to Experience British-style Debating

  • New Semester and a New Perspective

  • Who Do We Praise? A Tale of Two Passings

  • Where Does Rhetoric Begin in Courses?

  • Refreshing

  • Lost Technology

  • To Campus

  • Broadcasting Rhetoric

  • Another Time, D.C.!

  • The Archive

  • A Very Special Collection

  • Debate Topic(al) invention and iteration

  • I hate everything I am writing right now

  • E3 presents the literature of catastrophic apocalypse

  • Schlossbergese

  • I really like Goodreads and Should Post More Reviews

  • In Los Angeles for the Civic Debate Conference: Day 3

  • In Los Angeles for the Civic Debate Conference: Day 2 was on a Boat

  • In Los Angeles for the Civic Debate Conference Day 1

  • Why My Modern Rhetorical Theory Course Failed Spectacularly from a Roman Rhetorical Perspective

  • I Judged the Final of a Middle School Debate Competition

  • The False Sense of Closure

  • Disaster Term

  • The Productive Bias Fallacy in Higher Education

  • Good Debate, Debate as a Good, and Stoneman Douglas High School

  • On Mediated Representations of the Value of Debating

  • Flipping (off) the Classroom

  • Repair, Repatriate, Realign the University

  • About that Posting Everyday Gimmick

  • All Illegal Drugs Should be Legal: The Motion Debate Review for January

  • Spring 2018 Semester Starts Today

  • Happy Birthday Snap Specs

  • Zeb Freeman

  • The National Conference of the National Communication Association

  • Answering Some FAQs

  • Farewell Tournaments!

  • The Vision Quest Composition Pedagogy

  • So Glad I Don’t Have Cable TV

  • What Am I If I Step Away?

  • The Literary Society

  • Peer Education Reflections

  • Last Day

  • Slight Adjustments

  • Over Time

  • School Trip

  • Writing a Post about Thinking about Writing

  • Preserve What?

  • Skilled Rhetoric

  • Knowledges

  • The Motion Debate Review: Is Higher Education worth the Price of Tuition?

  • Full Thursday

  • BP and the Public

  • The Weirdest Way

  • Weekends

  • Opposing Skill-Oriented Pedagogy

  • That’s a Wide Angle

  • Montana Takeaways

  • Helena Aphorisms

  • Comparative Cornell Talks

  • Why the London Review of Books is Absolutely Essential Reading

  • Heading West

  • Ithaca Reflections Part 1: Moving Backwards

  • I Flew Back Downstate

  • Live from Ithaca, NY

  • Rough Day

  • Sleep in Saturday

  • Amateur Hour

  • Dancing on the Line

  • I sort of love my job

  • The Well of Debate Tropes

  • I Hate The Syllabus

  • A Daily Happening: The Intellectual Practice

  • The Motion: Live Debate Education debate on Islamic Culture in the United States

  • Review of The Motion’s debate on whether religion is a harm or good to society

  • I left the house to go get TSA Pre at Kennedy Airport

  • Illegal Tender

  • Blood Diamond

  • A Gaming Course

  • National Questions

  • Administrative Discourse Eliminates a Teaching Discourse

  • Teacher or Administrator?

  • Embracing Esperanto as Debating Metaphor

  • Anniversary Reflection

  • Who is this Person? Are They Any Good?

  • Debating with Reservations, Part 2

  • Debate with Reservations

  • Reality and its Apprehension

  • Post Post-Fact

  • The End of Worlds, Part 2

  • The End of Worlds, Part 1

  • NCA 2016 Review

  • What’s Wrong with the Presidential Debates?

  • What do Rhetoricans Stand For?

  • The First Presidential Debate 2016: Analysis

  • Presidential Debates

  • It’s Always Almost Here

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