Steve the Sophist

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

Sophistic Debate: Topic Archive

  • Tokyo Conference on Argumentation

  • Summer 2016 is all about being between two conferences

  • The Hatred of Poetry; The Hatred of Rhetoric?

  • Rhetorical Distortions in the Classroom

  • The Rhetoric Society of America

  • Discomfort, Embodiment, Argument

  • USU Reflections 2016

  • CEDA Nationals, technology, and future obligation

  • Lecturing at the Budapest Open

  • Uncertainty

  • Debate Tournament Fantasy, Part 1

  • Policy Debate: Exclusive or Exclusionary?

  • Buyer’s Remorse

  • Return of the Repressed

  • Book People

  • Activist Judging

  • An Open Letter about Communication, from an Ex-Debater to Debaters

  • Composition Studies, Again

  • Public Debate or Debate

  • #FourBookClass Challenge

  • The Critical Thinking Wall

  • Strategies for Introducing Rhetoric

  • As the Semester Begins

  • The Three Debate Formats

  • The Artificial Divide in Teaching

  • Three Simple Things that would have made the Fox News GOP Debate more Debate-y

  • Plaything of Domination

  • Debate Summer Institutes

  • University as Intervention Institution

  • Simple Public Speaking Assignments

  • Great Extinctions

  • Sometimes, always

  • Real Writing and Fake Writing

  • Opening Closing; Closing Opening

  • What I Want from a Debate Competition

  • Sorry Public Speaking. Composition is Owning You.

  • Repertoire

  • Connecticut Snows and Elimination Debates

  • Preposition Proposition

  • Is it Necessary? Is it Accidental?

  • Debate process and the koan

  • Explain It To Us!

  • Debating Masterclass; Debating Workshop

  • How Was Your Summer Debate Institute? A Few Questions

  • Teaching’s Dangerous Assumption

  • Robin Williams and Immersive Invention

  • Debate Coaches and the Canon of Invention

  • A Dirty Little Secret, Both Sides

  • Debate as the Pedagogy of Invention

  • Debate Format Camp vs. Debate Camp

  • ISSA 2014 Final Thoughts

  • Day 1 Wrap Up at ISSA 2014

  • Abandoned Blog?

  • Policy Debate and Race: No Defense

  • Parachutes are not for Reasonable People

  • Should We Have Two Different Divisions of British Parliamentary Debating?

  • Debate’s University Role

  • Ethics of the Chair

  • Contemporary Argumentation And Debate just published

  • Just Beyond the Echo Chamber

  • Debate’s Discourse

  • Tournament-Centric debating

  • Go See the Rhetorician

  • New Semester, Only Semester

  • Stop Hosting Worlds

  • Adjudication

  • Last Year, This Year

  • Good Theater; Good Debate

  • Montana Masterclass Demonstration Debate Video

  • Does Ted Cruz Represent American Debate?

  • Montana

  • Tricks with Email

  • 2013-2014 Will Be A Pivotal Debate Year, Part 3 of 3

  • 2013-2014 Will Be A Pivotal Debate Year, Part 2 of 3: Old Dogs Meet New Tricks

  • 2013-2014 Will Be A Pivotal Debate Year, Part 1 of 3

  • New Podcast Episode Available

  • Is WUDC still relevant?

  • Herding the Ox: Debate and the Mind

  • In the Bin Podcast Episode 3

  • In The Bin Episode 2 is live

  • #firstworldjudgeproblems

  • New podcast – In the Bin Episode 1

  • King’s College Tournament starts Tomorrow

  • Guest Post: Lossy Formats

  • debate chat orientation ep 0

  • Are the Presidential Debates Broken?

  • Why are University Debate Watch Parties Good?

  • Tablet Computing and Debate

  • Belgrade: Open Communication Video

  • Peer Teaching

  • Binghamton Semifinal: A Better Debate

  • Binghamton tournament reflections

  • On the Frontier of American Debate

  • Urban Legend and the Sad Truth

  • Podium Web Series on Rhetoric and Debate

  • Fear the Sophist

  • Montana bound

  • The Order of Eastern Things

  • Why is Policy Debate so Hard?

  • Connected

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